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Cotmania. Vol. II. 1927-8

Archive: SDK Sydney Decimus Kitson Archive
Reference Number: SDK/1/2/1/2
Page: 8 verso


  • Description

    Visit to Oxford Arts Club / Sketch of Cotman's 'A Moated House' with note / Article about windmills and Cotman

    Diary entry / Sketch with note / Cutting from 'Country Life' magazine

    Date: 24 Sep 1927 - Feb 1931

  • Transcription

    {Diary entry}
    Oxford Arts Club 28.9.27
    Exhibition of 35 English Water Colour drawings lent by Sir Harry Wilson K.C.M.G. of [Princess] Court, Ross-on-Wye. No. 13 is an indian ink drawing on yellow paper. The foliage is spotty & careless: the house well expressed. Early c. [[1805(?)]] 1802-3. 7½ x 10

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    {Sketch with note}

    1. J.S.Cotman (1782-1842) A Moated House.
      <I saw this again at Kay’s Rooms in the National Gallery. February '31. Also a superb sepia ‘Sketching Society’ landscape c 1804-5. Mountains & lakes & classical buildings. Poussin-like (Sir H.W)>

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    {Cutting from 'Country Life' magazine}
    <Country Life 24.9.27>
    A CHRONICLE OF WINDMILLS SEEN FROM MANY POINTS OF VIEW. BY H. C. HUGHES
    In many parts of England, and not by any means only along the east and south-east coasts, the white sails of the mills give point and rhythm to the landscape. In the dark sky and scudding rainstorm, what sight was braver or more splendid than the mill sails thrashing the gale as they ground the corn or safeguarded the marsh? One of Cotman’s most superb pictures shows three such water pumps fronting a passionate storm: a fourth has given in and swung round “quartered” to the wind.

Visit to Oxford Arts Club / Sketch of Cotman's 'A Moated House'  with note / Article about windmills and Cotman