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Oom-ta - Children's Story

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Date:

ca. 1935-1945

Reference:

R9338

Type of material:

Art

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Archives / Collections and Fonds

Item ID number:

3012451

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Richard Taylor fonds

Art and photographic material

Oom-ta - Children's Story
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Date(s):

ca. 1935-1945

Place of creation:

No place, unknown, or undetermined

Extent:

1 drawing / dessin : pen and black ink over pencil on wove paper
Support 28.000 x 42.700 cm

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Items 2001-Taylor-318 through 2001-Taylor-324 are rough illustrations and text for the children's book about Oom-ta, the character from Planet Bayta Centarus who dreams of finding life on another planet, which turns out to be Earth., There are 7 pages in total, each folded as if they were pages in a book. Each page supports 4 drawings, except for the 2001-Taylor-324 which only supports one. Making the total number of drawings in this set 25., All of the pages are inscribed with page numbers.

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Artist: Taylor, Richard, 1902-1970

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General note:

Set: Oom-ta Drawings

Signatures and inscriptions note:

Inscribed., Inscription: in pen and black ink over pencil, recto l.r.: Until he saw, ahead, the planet of his dreams - / 20-30!; (Partial transcription)
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political

social

politique

cartoon / dessin humoristique

TAYLOR, RICHARD // Oom-ta // Children's story // Space travel
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Private

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00324
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Item no. assigned by LAC [R9338] 324

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