BIB_ID
447205
Accession number
MA 4939.44
Creator
Van Volkenburg, Ellen, 1882-1978, sender.
Display Date
New York, New York, undated
Credit line
Gift of Edward Wagenknecht, 1994.
Description
1 item (2 pages) ; 15.1 x 14 cm (folded to 8.1 x 14 cm)
Notes
Printed card with an illustration of Cherubs in a Tree in the front and "Cherubs in a Tree / Details from a woodcut, Rest on the Flight into Egypt, / by Lucas Cranach the Elder, German, 1472-1553 / The Metropolitan Museum of Art / Gift of Felix M. Warburg and his family, 1941" on the back.
Provenance
Edward Wagenknecht.
Summary
Sending Christmas and New Years greetings; informing that she spent her summer "in exquisitely wet Devon" but that, thanks to Dorothy Elmhirst, she was able to go to Switzerland "with the Keeper of Textiles of the Victoria & Albert Museum, George Longfield Digby"; informing that she heard seven talks by "Krishnamurti"; asking how his year was; asking if he is coming to New York soon.
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