Archive: SDK Sydney Decimus Kitson Archive
Date: [1927-1942]
Reference Number: SDK/1/2
Extent
18 volumes, 5 boxes
Description
Material created by Kitson during his research and collecting activity around John Sell Cotman, including his biographies of Cotman; research journals and notebooks containing daily entries, as well as newspaper and magazine cuttings, correspondence, details of sales, transcriptions, sketches, family trees, reports, telegrams, photographs and other ephemera; catalogues and indices of Kitson's own collection of Cotmans and other artists.
The name Kitson gave to his research on Cotman was 'Cotmania'. The title stems from a poem written in 1803 by Harriet Cholmeley of Brandsbury Hall, North Yorkshire, in which she ... continue reading
Reference: SDK/1/2/1
Two sets of index cards and one catalogue created by Kitson to list his collection of art. One of two identical typescript copies of Kitson’s catalogue of his collection of... continue reading
Reference: SDK/1/2/2
Biographies of Cotman by Kitson. The last years of Sydney Kitson's life were primarily devoted to completing his biography of Cotman, 'The Life of John Sell Cotman' which was published ... continue reading
Reference: SDK/1/2/3
Kitson frequently visited collections of art, both public and private to make notes about the Cotman works he saw there. The notes books contain many sketches by Kitson of Cotman ... continue reading
Reference: SDK/1/2/4