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Cotmania. Vol. III. 1928-9

Archive: SDK Sydney Decimus Kitson Archive
Reference Number: SDK/1/2/1/3
Page: 11 recto (numbered 19)


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    List of painting subjects Kitson found in James Savage, History of the Hundred of Carhampton

    List of painting subjects Kitson found in James Savage, History of the Hundred of Carhampton

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    Dunster [Ch] Castle + Market House
    Dunster Castle (S. Side)
    Dunster Street
    Dunster Ch. + Priory Barn
    Dunster Ch (S. Side)
    D'o (Screen door) [Sep 3 1837 [mrunch??] ]
    D'o (Mural Monument)
    Dunster Castle (Footbridge) [Sept 23 1837 [?] Inscription surely Cotman]
    Dunster (Con[y]gar Hill)
    Dunster (Blue Anchor Bay)
    Dunster (Ancient door)
    Dunster (Luttrell Arms Inn) [J.S.C]
    Dunster (Luttrell Inn Fireplace)
    D'o (D'o Arms etc.)
    Exford ch. (Font) Sept 14 1837 in [orm!] inscription]
    Minehead
    D'o ch (Font) [[Circa] 1834]
    D'o (Bratton court)
    d'o (Bratton's tomb)
    Timberscombe Ch (Font)

    • by J.S. Cotman and Rev. J. Bulwer - Timberscombe Ch.
      • by J. Jackson. Dunster Castle
        The indian ink and sepia drawings are 26 in number, of which 15 are by J.S. Cotman & 10 by Rev. J. Bulwer [Selworthy, 1834]
        The engravings, 21 in number, of which one is coloured by Alken, Cooke, Rawle, Besin, Lewis, Prout & others.
        [No. 37 is a font inscribed Sep 5 1834 + then J.S.C. 1836. Sepia brush lines.
        [Arch? on the whole very much like the early manner but more swagger & fluent. Surely the best are J. S. C., if over Bulwer pencil work.] [Conegar Castle 1834]
        Very prettily coloured & good ord[inar]y drawings. Sweet vignettes. Washed with paste of sticky colour, rather pearly, min[i]ature to some extent. Clear signs of the Maw devel[opmen]t in No. 17 Dunster Bay (by Bulwer). Strong brush outlines in several. Pencil rather weak.] [Yes. The [ornamentally?] inscribed are Cotmans 1834 & 1837.]
        [Very clearly many of those attr[ibute]d to Bulwer are heavily worked on by Cotman. I am not sure that Cotman actually visited the spot. All the drawings I think were on uniform large paper, sometimes double sheets: & therefore cannot have been direct sketches]

List of painting subjects Kitson found in James Savage, *History of the Hundred of Carhampton*