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- Created by
- Duncan Grant 1885–1978
- Recipient
- Vanessa Bell 1879–1961
- Title
- Postcard from D. [Duncan Grant] to Vanessa Bell
- Date
- [14 May 1944]
- Description
- Addressed from Edinburgh. Addressed to Vanessa Bell, Charleston, Firle, Sussex, England. The postcard provides an update of his time in Scotland. The postcard features a reproduction of a photograph of Loch Lomond taken from a steamer.
- 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 8010/5/1804
Archive context
- Correspondence and other papers relating to Roger Fry, Vanessa Bell, Clive Bell, Duncan Grant and others TGA 8010 (681)
- Letters to Vanessa Bell TGA 8010/5 (681)
- Postcard from D. [Duncan Grant] to Vanessa Bell TGA 8010/5/1804
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