Archive: SDK Sydney Decimus Kitson Archive
Date: 29 Aug 1928-6 Jul 1929
Reference Number: SDK/1/2/1/3
Description
Volume III is largely a collection of letters Kitson received from art dealers and the descendants of families Cotman taught or painted for. There is also a series of accounts of Kitson's travels to find, evaluate or talk about works by Cotman. There are a few newspaper clippings that mention Cotman in passing, and lists from auction that Kitson may have attended.
Magazine sketch / Richard Parkes Bonington / Percy Moore Turner authentication
Page: 3 recto (numbered 3)
Visit of Sir Michael Sadler and 'Helmsley Woods', with a small sketch by Kitson of the woods
Page: 4 recto {numbered 5}
Account of visit to various people to see their paintings and assess if Cotmans
Page: 6 verso (numbered 10)
Letter from A. P. Oppé regarding purchase of a drawing (Doorway to Rievaulx Abbey Refectory)
Page: 10 recto (numbered 17), insert 2, recto
Letter from A. P. Oppé regarding the purchase of a drawing (Doorway to Rivaulx Abbey Refectory)
Page: 10 recto (numbered 17), insert 2, verso
List of painting subjects Kitson found in James Savage, History of the Hundred of Carhampton
Page: 10 verso (numbered 18)
List of painting subjects Kitson found in James Savage, History of the Hundred of Carhampton
Page: 11 recto (numbered 19)
Account of visit to Mrs Weldon and a clipping from The Sunday Times, 16.12.1928
Page: 11 verso (numbered 20)
Letter from Oliver Brown and Phillips to Kitson regarding a small sketch
Page: 13 recto, insert 1, recto
Kitson's account of visit to British Museum to look at volumes of Blomefield's Norfolk
Page: 17 verso
Letter from Frederick Douglas How to Kitson about his own research on Dr Monro
Page: 26 recto, insert 1, recto