Waterfall
pen & wash, Nash, 106 x 153 mm
'Waterfall' typeset brc of page, artist's signature and date, 'Paul Nash. 1923', brc of picture, which is printed on the top half of the page. Water tumbling over craggy rocks, huge stepped walls - in green and black on the natural colour of the paper, with no border line.
p 336 [tr ed p 355] - 'At the top, the waterfall, el Shellala as the Arabs named it, was only a few yards away.
'Its rushing noise came from my left, by a jutting bastion of cliff over whose crimson face trailed long falling runners of green leaves.'
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