Archive: SDK Sydney Decimus Kitson Archive
Reference Number: SDK/1/2/1/4
Page: 3 verso (numbered 2)
Description
Transcribed letter from Dawson Turner to Gurney Turner
A transcribed letter from Dawson Turner to his son Gurney Turner in 1840 detailing a list of paintings by or associated with Cotman. This is copied onto two pieces of paper and stuck into the volume, with another inscription down the left-hand side of the cut-outs written in 1929.
Date: Letter from 1840, copy from 1929
Transcription
From the Author
Outlines in Lithigraphy
From a small collection of Pictures
For private circulation
Yarmouth
1840
Dedication to Gurney Turner Esq. Surgeon in the service of the then East India Company from his ‘affectionate Father. Dawson Turner’.
Yarmouth May 1, 1840.
‘In the drawings you will recognise the hand of your sisters: in the descriptions that of one still more dear, to whom among infinite obligations of a far higher nature, you are indebted for the perception & the admiration & the love of whatever is beautiful in nature or in art.
The following Cromes are re[produce]d:
(1) View at Hellesdon. “Nagler in his Neues Allgemeines Künstler-Lexikon does much justice to Crome’s very meritorious fellow-trimmer [?] & brother-artist, Cotman”.
(2) Cottage – near Norwich .
(3) Clay Cottage
(4) View on the River near Yarmouth [N. G. Picture] only a few miles before Yare joins the Waveney at Caister.
(5) View near Norwich.
(6) Cottage at Hunstanton
(7) Scene on the river at Norwich
Notes from a copy in the Bodleian Library, June 27, 1929.