Cotmania. Vol. IV. 1929-30

Roon, a novel by Herbert Asquith.
p. 43 "Do you admire Cotman?"
"I do," growled Robert .
"I was lucky enough to inherit some of his work, you must come & see it when you have the time."
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p.44 "He seemed to like what I said about Cotman."
"Yes. He likes Cotman," she said, rather abrubtly.
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p.67 The only pictures she liked were the two Cotmans of Whinnies on the Broads, where were hung in the drawing room in the middle of a long line of the less desirable products of Victorian academies. Roon began to wonder how the Cotmans had got into such company as this and asked Herbert to tell her their history.
"The Cotmans were a legacy" he said.
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p.69 She chose a small empty sitting room on the first floor. Here, with Herbert's consent, she hung the two Cotmans.
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Dec: 10. 1929. Reading Theses, for the R.I.B.A final exam. One, on what architecture is - contains the following.
The age of Napoleon ushered in the cult of 'genius' ... However when tradition ceased to supply precedents, and with the cult of genius in full blast, unmindful of the examples of Keats & Cotman & Corst, the architect would set out to do something big in the Gothic style or to build a London Club on the model of Palazzo Riccardi.
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Effects like these on the stuff of the garden designer's art. With these he can contour compositions like Corot's, or evoke feelings like Cotman's for "Dewy Eve" or "The Shadowed Stream."
R. C. Fisher.