Cotmania. Vol. II. 1927-8

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Sunday May 5. 1928. Lunched with Gaskell - Kidlington Hall. He has a sepia landscape. 9 x 13½. Signed J. S. Cotman. bottom right.
Written on back in J. S. C's writing -
Friday Nov. 4th 1803 - Subject / We came to the hall of the Kings, where it rose in the midst of rocks. Ossian Temora Book 4th
J.S.Cotman. President: J. Varley, T. Webster, Powell, J. Hayward, P. S. Munn. Visitors. J. Harvey: Mulreadey (sic)
bought at a shop near Paddington Station, 25 years ago for under a sovereign.

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He also has an exquisite little pencil sketch. 4¼ x 3⅜. signed 'Cotman [1805?]' - this may have been added, as the sketch of the soft ground etching class looks c. 1815. the style - or mannerisms - are fully developed - It is the exact facsimile reversed same size as soft ground etching 18. 'NORWICH THORPE'.