Cotmania. Vol. II. 1927-8

{List of drawings}
There are also the following pencil drawings at the Whitworth Institute.

(1) Sepia drawing of Falaise Castle N.W. View given by Sir J.J Colman. ex Porter Collection – lot 1837 at Christie’s sale April 1918. ‘Sept 16. 1818 J.S. Cotman’ 11¼ x 18.
(2) Ship on Shore – collier unloading - charcoal & white on grey [brown] paper – Cliffs (? Cromer) behind – dotted figures on sands – might be M.E.C – or Geldart 9 x 12 given by Anderson 1916
(3) Pencil drawing on buff paper, touched with white, of Chateau Aumale. With colour notes. Signed ‘J.S. Cotman 1830’. Study or record of R.J. Colman’s watercolours – 20 x 13½ - given by Anderson 1917.
(4) Sepia of a font in a Norfolk Church, Bulwer Collection (Heckingham Font No. 125) 9 x 6½ font cover is askew. signed & dated 1817.
(5) Pencil drawing of ‘Via Mala’ – c 6½ x 9½ ‘The Devil’s Bridge’ – bought 1925
(6) [crossed out - Sepia] Pencil drawing on buff paper of the Porch in Normandy Church, with figure of a man in doorway. Late flamboyant architecture. given by Sir J.J. Colman 1918 c 14 x 10½
(7) Sepia interior elevation of a part of a church in Normandy – “Elevation of part of the nave of Church of St Germain at Pontaudemer J.S. Cotman 1818 1820 c 14 x 10 given by Sir J.J. Colman 1918 “49” top left [corner]

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{catalogue cutting}
124 Door of St. Mary’s, Long Stratton J.Sell Cotman, A.R.W.S
<No 37 in Bulwer Collection Walkers Gallery '26. >
<From Matthew & Brooke’s Exhibition Autumn 1927>

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{Diary entry}
Visited Harlech Oct 11 – 17 – J.S.C’s 2 soft ground etchings are wonderfully accurate representations of the Castle & give its majestic symmetry & aloofness.

Oct: 15, visited Tan-y-Bwlch – the bridge & mountains are reversed in J.S.C’s soft ground etching.

2 miles above (N) Tan-y-Bwlch is another early 17th century (?) bridge – Pont Dol-y-Moch locally attributed to Inigo Jones (!). Given as No. 77 (should be 78) in Royal Collection on Ancient Monuments for Wales (p.33). The mountain in centre distance is Manod (the Greater) My watercolour (No. 11) seems to be based on an early sketch of this bridge. Mrs Jackson, widow of a K.C lives in a house of 1616, close by & owns the property. 1 arched Roman bridge close by.