- Title
- Postcard from D.G. [Duncan Grant] to Vanessa Bell
- Date
- [April 1919]
- Medium
- Ink on card
- Dimensions
- 113 × 89 mm
- Description
- Addressed from Charleston, Firle, Sussex to J.T. [John Tresidder] Sheppard, the Crown Hotel, Lyndhurst, Hants. The card was not posted. Grant used it to send a message to Vanessa Bell, postmarked 29 Apr 1919, Charleston, Firle, Sussex. The postcard was enclosed a small sketch of an oil stove known as a 'Double Beatrice with 2 wicks'.
- Format
- Document - correspondence
- Collection
- Tate Archive
- Acquisition
- Purchased at Sotheby's Sale, 21st -22nd July 1980 [Lot numbers 201,204,208,211,223,224,227,228,229,233,239,245,250,261,262,266]. The letters were gathered from different rooms at Charleston Farmhouse (including the attics), by Quentin Bell, son of Vanessa and Clive Bell. They were lodged in the Library of King's College, Cambridge and then transferred to Sotheby 's in 1980 for the auction.
- Reference
- TGA 8010/5/1179
