Archive: SDK Sydney Decimus Kitson Archive
Reference Number: SDK/1/2/1/2
Page: 58 verso
Description
'Buildwas Abbey' at Leeds
diary entry / sketch
Date: 24 July 1928
Transcription
{diary entry}
R.H. Kitson writes from Leeds on July 24 to say that Matthews & Brooke have a watercolour, 'very rich in colour, reddish brown, a fine composition, a little - not exactly faded - but dirtied - 175£.
This is the 'Buildwas Abbey' from the Brocklebank Collection, put up at Christies in July 1927 & withdrawn @ 75 guineas. Came up again at Christies 4.6.'28. 9 x 14½
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{sketch}