Archive: SDK Sydney Decimus Kitson Archive
Reference Number: SDK/1/2/1/10
Page: Vol. 10, p.32, recto
Description
Auction sales at Christie's from 1934 -1935
Date: 1934 -1935
Transcription
Auction Sales.
1934-1935
Christie's 16.XI. 34
Drawing copy with a No. c.1824.
J.S.COTMAN
13 VALE OF LLANTISSILO, NORTH WALES
Pencil - 8 in. by 11 in.
Property of Lady Northcote.
J.S.COTMAN
74 HEIDELBERG
10 1/2 in. BY 15 1/2 in. "Various props" - but Mrs Payne.
Christie's 15.2.35
15 Gs [Guineas] Crook
25 An album of drawings of landscapes, churches, shipping, figure subjects, etc., in green morocco tooled with gold and inscribed "Rosetta D'Arblay Burney"; and A Box containing two aquatints of Italian peasant woman, drawings, etc. - (two).
'a small long, flat landscape, river or lake scene in rich brown sepia, rather unusual for a presumably early drawing signed 'Cotman' in the sky' - P.O.
Walkers 21 Gs.
J.M.W.Turner, R.A.
26 AN OLD TREE-Indian ink and colour; FARM BUILDINGS, BY J.S.Cotman - Indian ink wash; DUNSTANBOROUGH CASTLE, by T.Girtin; A CHURCH PORCH; A MOUNTAIN STREAM, with footbridge, by P.S.Munn - 1840; and A SWISS RIVER SCENE, with bridge - (six).
A weak, very early + most fluffy farm bridges, [?] + [?], Mrs Murry, signed 'J. S. Cotman'.
Christie's 8.3.35
J. S. Cotman
73 THE ADMIRAL
6 1/2 in. by 4 1/2 in.
"Kings Coll: type."
X
Nightingale, 5 1/2 Gs.
J. S. Cotman
83 A JETTY, with anchors
7 3/4 in. by 10 3/4 in.
A strange drawing of 2 anchors on a quay. Signed is the suspicions S which might be a J. (?) [grualt?] bright cloudy blue sky - P.O.
Christie's 15 IV.35.
COTMAN
24 BELAM CASTLE, MOUTH OF THE TAGUS
9 1/2 in. by 14 1/2 in.
Christie's 5.IV. 35.
J. S. Cotman
58 DRAINING MILLS AT CROWLANDM, LINCOLNSHIRE
On panel - 24 in. by 19 1/2 in.
Property of Walter de [Zoate] esq. - Leeds.