Paul Nash, recipient: Edward Burra

‘Letter for Ed’ from Paul Nash, with attached images

[c.December 1943]

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Created by: Paul Nash 1889–1946
Recipient: Edward Burra 1905–1976
Title: ‘Letter for Ed’ from Paul Nash, with attached images
Date: [c.December 1943]
Description: The letter includes a photograph of [George] Cruikshank's 'Tom O'Shanter', an illustration of the Great Exhibition and an image of an armadillo, a fox and a statue.
Format: Document - correspondence
Collection: Tate Archive
Acquisition: Presented to the Archive by Lady Ann Ritchie in February 1977.
Reference: TGA 771/5/3

Bloomsbury British Surrealism British War Art Neo-romanticism Surrealism

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