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- Created by
- Sir Jacob Epstein 1880–1959
- Recipient
- Peggy Jean Lewis 1918–2010
- Title
- Letter from Jacob Epstein to Peggy Jean
- Date
- 09 February [1949]
- Description
- The letter discusses working on a head of Ralph Vaughan Williams and mentions Barbara Hepworth. The letter also mentions his works 'Princess Desta' (1948-9), 'George Prinz' (1948), 'Princess Menen' (1948-9) and 'Second Portrait of Pandit Nehru (bust)' (1949).
- Format
- Document - correspondence
- Collection
- Tate Archive
- Acquisition
- Purchased for the Tate Archive from Peggy Jean Lewis in two batches, sixty letters in 1987 and the photographs and three letters in 1989.
- Reference
- TGA 8716/16
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