The Cotman Collection | 87

Cotmania. Vol. III. 1928-9

Archive: SDK Sydney Decimus Kitson Archive
Reference Number: SDK/1/2/1/3
Page: 28 recto


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    Auction listings, with some annotation of Kitson's correcting authenticity

    Auction listings, with some annotation of Kitson's correcting authenticity

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    J S Cotman
    Sotheby's 1.5.29
    72 A County Lane, pencil; J Varley: Cottage in a Lane, pencil, signed; L. Haghe: Inn Yard of a Continental Town; J C Burgess: The Old Bridge at Lucerne, pen and ink
    not seen

    J S Cotman
    Sotheby's 3.6.29
    63 Etchings by John Sell Cotman, Edinburgh, 1811 (Popham 1-26), title, dedication and twenty plates only, with descriptive index and list of subscribers
    S.D.K. 3.10.0

    John Sell Cotman
    84 A Woodland Glade, with a heron standing among rushes in a rising stream.
    watercolour
    Sotheby's 19.6.29
    sold at Christie's 25.11.27 for 90 guineas from the Brocklebank collection.
    17in. by 21in.
    bought by Thomson for c. 60. + sold by [?] Keen.

    J. S. Cotman
    Sotheby's 22.6.29
    Lot 1 [[Derwentwater]], signed
    Watercolour
    A foreign lake scene, late, c. 1829. No paste, much pencil work in mountains. A boat with sail (another sail obliterated) no reference to nature. -pleasant-
    5¼ by 8¼ in.

    The Following are sold by Order of the Executors of SIR WILLIAM LANCASTER, deceased, late of South Lynn, 49 Putney Hill, S.W.
    Christie's July 22.29
    Drawings
    JS Cotman, 1830.
    1 Composition called "Toledo" : A view in an old town with figures on a bridge. 16½ in. by 23½ in.
    68 guineas to Sampson
    [L?]E sold to Manchester in Dec [21] for 90 guineas.

    Christie's July 26.29.
    J S Cotman
    A farmstead with cattle by a pool.
    10 in. by 13½ in.
    beautiful blue and orange colours. 82 guineas.

    Sotheby's 31.7.29
    John Sell Cotman
    91 Extensive Landscape
    Watercolour very bad dud
    10 in. by 15½ in.

    John Sell Cotman
    92 Village Scene
    Bistre not Cotman. ? Thirlk. bought by SDK for 1.10-0.
    9 in. by 12. in.

    John Sell Cotman
    93 Interior of a Church very bad dud.
    watercolour 6in. by 9in.

    215 Cotman
    "A Mill on the Yare," and "A Landscape with Figures at a stile" (2) oils?
    Hencombe 30.7.29

Auction listings, with some annotation of Kitson's correcting authenticity