Cotmania. Vol. IV. 1929-30

Jan 2. 1930. Had tea with Beatrice Kitson at 'Stone Longboats.' Saw the 50 chalk and charcoal Cotman sketches, mostly on grey & blue paper. Most of them are of high quality.
Jan 6. 1930. Went to Hunter Street, Brunswick Square. 42 has been rebuilt with adjoining house, (very meanly) & is now 'The Cambria' (late Taverner's) Temperance Hotel. It was at the N end of Hunter Street, west side - at the corner of Leigh street & the last house in Hunter Street (Judd street continues to the North.)
Went to British Museum - Cotman had written in bottom corner of 'Below Hardly Cross' - 'The World Afloat.' (No. 146) No. 91 is the charcoal study for the Hon. Mrs. Deighton Pollock's 'Heidelburg Castle' - watercolour.
Jan 7. 1930. Called on Mrs Daplyn, 30 Pattison Road, N.W. 2. She has a fine J.J.C. watercolour - 'Burgh Bridge, near Aylsham,' bought from Lord Kimberley. Also a good De Wint of Croyland. Also Flaxman's Copy of Cotman's early etchings. Her father, W. H. Smith, was a still-life painter. She breeds dogs.
Jan 10. 1930. Called on Mrs Horace, 15 Buckingham Gate, S.W. - (A sister of the late Horace Porter) In 1908, before the red cross sale, he gave her 2 sepia Cotman drawings.
(1) "Tour de l'Eglise de St Michel dans le fauxbourg de Vaucelles a Caen.' J. S. Cotman, sketched July 24. 1817. 11" 13 1/2 x 9 1/4 - exact size of etching, & very faithful to etching in every way: a good drawing, depending on pencil rather than on the slight sepia washes.
(2) 'Church of Pavilly, near Rouen, looking across the Nave. J. S. Cotman, Sketched July 14. 1818. 11x9 1/4. not etched. a very fine study in shadows & tone values.
(Inside of a romanesque ch[urch].)