Purchased on the Elisabeth Ball Fund, 1968.
1 drawing
A preparatory drawing by Saint-Exupéry for Le petit prince related an illustration for part V, which shows the little prince on a planet overtaken by three baobab trees, and is printed with the caption "Les baobabs." The boa constrictor sketches are related to those that illustrate part I. ([Paris]: Gallimard, c1946 [1967 impression]) p. 9-10, 25.
This drawing is p. 158 of the autograph manuscript of Le petit prince (MA 2592). See related record for more information.
Title from Lacroix, no. 443.
Mrs. Silvia Reinhardt; purchased on the Elisabeth Ball Fund, 1968.
Drawing shows a the little prince holding a shovel and standing atop a planet being overtaken by a single baobab tree. Below the planet are two sketches of a boa constrictor digesting an elephant (one, on the left, of the "inside" of the boa constrictor with the elephant; the second, on the right, simply an outline drawing of the boa constrictor).