- Title
- Postcard [from Duncan Grant] to Vanessa Bell
- Date
- [26 April 1930]
- Description
- No address but possibly sent from London. Addressed to Vanessa Bell, Charleston, Firle near Lewes, Sussex. The postcard concerns a brief update of his travel plans ahead of his arrival. The postcard features a reproduction of a photograph of Eugène Delacroix by Nadar.
- 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 8010/5/1496
