Cotmania. Vol. X. 1934-5

{Press cuttings}
SEVENTY-SEVENTH ANNUAL REPORT OF THE TRUSTEES OF THE NATIONAL PORTRAIT GALLERY. 1933-1934

DONATIONS, LOANS AND BEQUESTS.
Sir Raymond Unwin, by H. Riviere
By the Librarian, Royal Institute of British Architects.
Mrs J. S. Cotman, by J.S. Cotman.
By Sydney Kitson; Esq
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{Kitson notes}
Leeds Art Gallery 'Festival' exhibition of 'modern British painters, Oct 1934 (Writing is obscured by catalogue cutting):

1. Cotman A Classical Landscape ... ... Sir Hickman Bacon, Bt
2. " Postwick Grove ... ... " " "
3. " A Beach Scene ... ... " " "

The other artists represented are Constable, Greaves, Sickert, Gilman, Gore, John, Lamb [?], P. Nash, J. Nash, Lewis, G. Spencer, Aldridge.
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{Kitson notes}
Another Batchelor came to stay, Oct 9 - 1934.
He brought with him an album 10 x 7 1/2 x 1 3/4. H. Gilroyd to the Reverend Charles Turner, Vicar of St Peters Mancroft. There are 3 Cotman drawings in it - (1) The frontispiece a cherub with an arrow prodding the flame of a lamp - "Mr Turner" is written behind the lamp - it is signed "J.S.C 1827". "Affection cherishing the spark of life" - pencil
(written vertically on left of page) - Now owned by Mr Gordon of Norwich -

(2) Three cherubs descending on a book, the front one holding 2 wreaths, the back ones holding palm leaves - signed "J.S.C". The infant [? ] the album. No date. Pencil.
(3) Five boys bathing and two boys dressed on the bank with a fishing rod - J.S.C - Dec 31 1826
Jan 1 1827
"Midsummer Holidays"
By [Bond]. verse 6-7.
Spoken by Dixon at Mr Turner's Recitations "1826"
This subject composed during the recitations.

(written vertically on left of page) - These 3 drawings are all drawn on the album paper.