Paul Nash
Funeral Pyre: illustration from 'Urne Buriall and the Garden of Cyrus'' - 1932
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Printed in colours on Barcham Green hand-made paper. As issued in the book: 'Urne Buriall and the Garden of Cyrus' by Sir Thomas Browne, edited by John Carter. Published by Cassell and Company Limited, London, in 1932. Printed by Curwen Press, Plaistow. There was an edition of 215 copies on Barcham Green hand-made paper.
Ref: Redfern Gallery 1949, Cat No 45
Minories 1982, Cat No 19.9
Illustrating words by Browne: 'Some bones make best skeletons, some bodies quick and speediest ashes... and the Saracens burnt in large heaps, by the King of Castile shewed how little Fuell sufficeth. Though the Funerall pyre of Patroclus took up an hundred foot...'
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