Drawn on the back of a postcard from the artist to Edward Burra with a postmark of October 1930

Signed with monogram: PN and extensively inscribed with a comic poem from the artist

Pen and blue ink, 11.5 by 9 cm (4 ½ by 3 ½ ins) 

Provenance: Edward Burra; William Chappell

This intriguing illustrated postcard is likely to refer to a recorded trip that Burra would make to Glasgow in 1930, during which time he probably executed his well-known Scottish street scene The Gorballs, Glasgow. By the late 1920s Burra and Nash had become close friends with a considerable mutual artistic respect, one that had been strengthened by Nash living on the south coast at Dymchurch, not far from Burra at Rye.