Archive: SDK Sydney Decimus Kitson Archive
Reference Number: SDK/1/2/1/11
Page: 36 recto, insert recto
Description
Letter to SDK from Hugh Fairfax-Cholmeley, 5 August 1936, concerning a portrait of Henry Englefield (1)
Date:
Transcription
Telephone Brandsby 35.
Swathgill,
Hovingham,
York
Aug. 5th 1936
Dear Kitson,
Many thanks for the photographs which are exceedingly interesting. I have a replica or rather an almost identical pencil portrait here signed by Cotman and named by him Sir H. Englefield, so I think we must conclude that the "To Francis Cholmeley" is only a dedication to my grandfather(?). Don't you think it would be to my grandfather & not great grandfather, as if it had been a dedication to the latter he would have added "Esq.". The photograph shows minute differences in detail of the clothes and the pencil lines are stronger and darker, the pencilling in my portrait