The Cotman Collection | 21

Cotmania. Vol. II. 1927-8

Archive: SDK Sydney Decimus Kitson Archive
Reference Number: SDK/1/2/1/2
Page: 22 verso


  • Description

    Letter from Charles Francis Bell thanking Kitson for photograph of Cotman portrait / James Rimmell catalogue entry

    Letter / catalogue cutting

    Date: 23 Dec 1927 - March 1928

  • Transcription

    {Letter}
    Telephone: OXFORD 2740
    26 BEAUMONT STREET, OXFORD.
    23rd Dec. 1927
    Dear Kitson
    Your very kind letter gives me great pleasure, and you couldn't have made me a present which I should prefer to the photograph of this most charming and interesting portrait of The Great Man. Thank you most warmly for it. I have not seen the original. I was very keenly interested in the fate of that collection, and was much relieved when I heard it had been secured bodily by the Victoria and Albert Museum.
    Sincerely yours
    C F Bell

    /

    {catalogue cutting}
    JAMES RIMMELL & SON, Ltd.
    6, DUKE STREET, ST. JAMES', LONDON, S.W.1.
    738 DRAWINGS and Paintings by Artists of NORFOLK and SUFFOLK, 28 photogravure plates reproduced by J. J. Waddington, after Constable, Cotman, Crome, Stannard, Edwards, Stark etc., roy. 8vo., boards, uncut, £6 6s
    1914
    COTMAN (J. S.) Architectural Antiquities of Normandy, with Historical and Descriptive Notices by Dawson Turner, 100 etched plates of exteriors, interiors and details, 2 vols. in 1, stout folio, russia gilt (side cracked), edges gilt £4 4s.
    1822
    <Catalogue March 1928>

Letter from Charles Francis Bell thanking Kitson for photograph of Cotman portrait / James Rimmell catalogue entry