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Paul Nash: Heaven   (Wikidata search (Cirrus search) Wikidata query (SPARQL)  Create new Wikidata item based on this file)
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Paul Nash  (1889–1946)  wikidata:Q727643 q:en:Paul Nash (artist)
 
Paul Nash
Alternative names
Nash
Description British painter, illustrator, printmaker, designer and photographer
Date of birth/death 11 May 1889 Edit this at Wikidata 11 July 1946 Edit this at Wikidata
Location of birth/death Kensington Boscombe
Work period 1912 Edit this at Wikidata–1945 Edit this at Wikidata
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London Edit this at Wikidata
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artist QS:P170,Q727643
Title
Heaven
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Nash made this wood engraving to illustrate the first English translation of 'Abd-er-Rahman in Paradise' by Jules Tellier, 1928. This story tells of the death of Abd-er-Rhaman in Constantine and his choice of whether to ascend to Christian or Muslim heaven.

It describes his journey through Paradise and the Garden of Delights until eventually he becomes bored of pleasure. The tale has a moral twist, the reader is told that at the end “the wisest thing to crave at the end of our mortal journey is ... the stillness of sleep”.

This design neatly separates out the various stages of Abd-er Rhaman’s journey and by use of overlapping planes suggests his movement from one heaven to another.
Date 1928
date QS:P571,+1928-00-00T00:00:00Z/9
Medium Wood engraving on white japon paper
Dimensions 251 x 190 mm
Royal Albert Memorial Museum and Art Gallery
Accession number
385/1974/1
Credit line Royal Albert Memorial Museum and Art Gallery
Inscriptions Heaven 385/1974/1 Paul Nash
Source/Photographer Royal Albert Memorial Museum and Art Gallery
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