- Title
- Postcard from D. [Duncan Grant] to Vanessa Bell
- Date
- [1 August 1935]
- Description
- Addressed from Naples. Addressed to Vanessa Bell, Charleston, Firle near Lewes, Sussex. The postcard provides an update upon his arrival in Naples. The postcard features a reproduction of a photograph of the 'Throne of Venus' [the Ludovisi Throne] in the National Museum, Rome.
- 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 8010/5/1692
