BIB_ID
318290
Accession number
MA 2592.20
Creator
Saint-Exupéry, Antoine de, 1900-1944.
Credit line
Purchased on the Elisabeth Ball Fund, 1968.
Description
1 drawing
Notes
A preparatory watercolor drawing by Saint-Exupéry for Le petit prince related an illustration for part V, which shows the little prince digging up a baobab shoot in a field of pink flowers ([Paris]: Gallimard, c1946 [1967 impression]) p. 23.
This drawing is p. 159 of the autograph manuscript of Le petit prince (MA 2592). See related record for more information.
Title from Lacroix, no. 441.
This drawing is p. 159 of the autograph manuscript of Le petit prince (MA 2592). See related record for more information.
Title from Lacroix, no. 441.
11 x 8 7/16 inches (279 x 215 mm)
Provenance
Mrs. Silvia Reinhardt; purchased on the Elisabeth Ball Fund, 1968.
Summary
Drawing shows a the little prince using a shovel to dig up a small baobab sapling on a planet that is surrounded by one star and a yellow moon.
Medium
Watercolor and ink and traces of graphite on onionskin paper
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