
Purchased on the Elisabeth Ball Fund, 1968.
1 drawing
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.
Mrs. Silvia Reinhardt; purchased on the Elisabeth Ball Fund, 1968.
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.