Archive: SDK Sydney Decimus Kitson Archive
Reference Number: SDK/1/2/1/4
Page: 7 recto (numbered 9)
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Continued list of Cotman works at Crown Point
Continued list of Cotman works at Crown Point
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**(l) The storm. A chariot, a temple, a landscape, 2 figures, 2 foreground. thunderstorm. very dramatic (early Sk[etching] Soc[iety]?) 9 x 14
****(m) The Gnarled Oak. r. water l. fragment. landscape beyond - monochrome on rough paper - 13 x 16 - 'J.S.Cotman' in ink r bottom. superb: Early Sk[etching] Soc[iety]?)
*(n) 'Blickling Park.' pencil on grey paper - 14 x 21 - late (1841?) written on back in J.S.C's writing 'This solitary and pensive guise.'
***(o) Castle Eden Dean (?) Cf Miss Littlewood's watercolour of same subject - c. 1805 - 11 x 9.
**(p) A figure walking in a wood - monochrome on brownish paper - early (? Sk[etching] Soc[iety]) 14 3/4 x 11 1/2
**(q) Gothic doorway and staircase at Caen. 'J.S.Cotman 1817.' sepia - fine arrangement. 13 x 9.
(r) Cleft Rocks. Normandy (outside Pontorson?) sepia - lights too white - 11 x 18
*(s) Little Snoring Nfk. like the anon: etching - watercolour. fairly early.
**(t) Cottage with a girl to r - s.g. etching No. 40 Lakenham n[ea]r Norwich - reversed - 9 x 7 3/4 - Colman - 1302 - c.1809-12. nice colour.
(u) The Abbey Church of Cherisy - sepia for the etching. no inscription or date.
(v) The Mill at Eye - (no horse to r) Watercolour 9 x 13. very beautiful blues and greys.
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The Cotman bedroom has about 35 watercolours.
(a) A Cottage '1623. J.S.Cotman' c. 1814.
(b) A Cottage '1581 Cotman' c. 1812-13.
***(c) A lovely large waterwheel, c.1805.
***(d) Banks of the Greta. near view of foliage. water. 1805.
(e) A house in Rouen (w.c of etching) 'J.S.Cotman 1818.'
(f) A Tower, with 3 men on right. c. 1808. (?) '476. Cotman'.
****(g) The Needles - seen from the sea. Most glorious symphony in blue and grey.