He too made busts of children, the earliest being portraits of street urchins; the human form, smaller than life-size, was at the center of his art.
Robbins created many important ballets for NYCB, some of the earliest being The Cage (1951), Afternoon of a Faun (1953), and The Concert (1956).
Records exist indicating continuous habitation at the site for more than three millennia, the earliest being a reference by Pharaoh Thutmose III (18th dynasty; 15th century bc).
Some of the bronzes, cast solid by the "lost wax" process (using a wax model), are very fine, the earliest being the best.
In New York, a handful of Gilbert commissions are known, the earliest being the 1885 Young Men's Institute, a stolid red-brick Queen Anne building at 222 Bowery, near Prince Street.
The Etruscans, a highly civilized people who were the ancestors of the modern Tuscans and the predecessors of the Romans, inhabited what is now Tuscany in central Italy; their language, still mainly undeciphered, has come down in more than 11,000 inscriptions, the earliest being the 8th-century-bce Marsiliana Tablet, preserved in the Archaeological Museum in Florence.
