- Title
- Postcard from D. [Duncan Grant] to Vanessa Bell
- Date
- [5 August 1825]
- Medium
- Ink on card
- Dimensions
- 113 × 90 mm
- Description
- Addressed from 37 Gordon Square, London. Addressed to Vanessa Bell, 46 Gordon Square W. Readdressed by Grant to Charleston, Firle near Lewes, Sussex. The postcard concerns general news and mentions he dined with Angus [Davidson] then went to an Italian circus in Camberwell Green, London. The postcard is illustrated with a small sketch of a section of a table which had gone missing.
- 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 8010/5/1360
