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Cotmania. Vol. IV. 1929-30

Archive: SDK Sydney Decimus Kitson Archive
Reference Number: SDK/1/2/1/4
Page: 3 recto (numbered 1)

  • Description

    Catalogue of Etchings copied from Bodleian Library

    A catalogue of etchings from the Bodleian library copied and stuck onto the page of the volume, dated 27 June 1929. The works in the catalogue range in date from 1813-1830 and are either by Cotman, associated with Cotman or very similar to Cotman's work.

    Date: 1929

  • Transcription

    "One Hundred Etchings by Mrs Dawson Turner, not published" on reverse - "only 49 copies printed".

    Note inserted. "Mr Dawson Turner requests D. Paudinal (?) will do him the honour to deposit the accompanying volume in the Bodleian Library. Yarmouth 21st April 1830."
    Bidder, George (known as the calculating Boy) from a drawing by J. S. Cotman 1819.
    Burchell W. P. (Author of Travels in Africa ). 1816.
    Cotman, John Sell (Draughtsman of Norman Antiquities. Etc.) [[do.]] J.P. Davis. 1818.
    Englefield, Sir H. C. Bart. 1815.
    Hooker. W. J L.L.D. (Professor of Botany at Glasgow) [[do.]] 1813
    Sharp, Thomas of Coventry (author of an Essay on the Coventry Mysteries.) [[d_o]] 1823. ,
    -------
    Caister Castle, Norfolk
    from a drawing by J. S. Cotman.
    (upright, like Sir M. Sadler's watercolour)
    Le Chanteur de Vaudeville from a portrait by David Turner in the poss[essio]n of Dawson Turner Esq. [crossed out - also etched by Cotman in the Libre] (Etched by Mrs. M.T. 1814)
    Ruins of St. Bennett's Abbey.
    Mrs. M. T. 1814 - --- from a drawing by Mrs Dawson Turner. Very like Cotman's etching.

    Copied from the copy in the Bodleian Library
    June 27, 1929.

Catalogue of Etchings copied from Bodleian Library