Stamped with the Paul Nash Trustees Estate stamp (under mount)

Verso: Tailpiece to Urn Burial (on p.53)

Pencil, 14.5 by 8 cm

Provenance: with Alexander Postan Fine Art in 1973

Exhibited: Alexander Postan Fine Art, Paul Nash, an exhibition of watercolours, drawings and prints from “Urn Buriall and the Garden of Cyrus”, 15-28 May 1973, no.1

Nash worked out many of his most visionary visual ideas in the illustrations he produced for an edition of Thomas Browne’s Urn Burial and the Garden of Cyrus in the early 1930s. The unease of many of these illustrations, particularly the present one, aptly reflect the unsettled backdrop of the early 1930s.