Cotmania. Vol. IV. 1929-30

{Journal Article}
{Image of 'The Water Tower, York' JSC}
THE WATER TOWER, YORK.
Water-colour drawing by John Sell Cotman. Reproduced from "John Sell Cotman," by Sydney D. Kitson.
By courtesy of the Publisher and the Owner, Edward Marsh, Esq., C.B.

JOHN SELL COTMAN (1782 - 1842) Italic textBy Sydney D. Kitson. 40. 1930. (Old Water Colour Society.)*
This short monograph contains more research that many longer biographies and tells the story of Cotman's melancholy life. He is an artist whose fame has grown steadily since he died, helped no doubt by the strange affinity between his work in some of its phases and that of the great Japanese colour printers of whom her must have been quite unaware. At his best he shares their power of grasping the essentials of a scene and rejecting everything else, and of putting it simply before you in flat washes. The coloured plate of "The Needles" and the splendid composition of "The Water Tower, York," show his gifts at their utmost. Mr Kitson's enthusiasm for Cotman is well known, and the occasional words of criticism which he allows himself make one regret that they are so few.
F.R.I.B.A.
{Kitson's Account}
R.I.B.A. Journal - Feb 22. 1930. (H. M. Fletcher)

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V. Ruprich-Robert's L'Architecture Normande aux 11 & 12 siècles en Normandie et en Angleterre (1884 - 89) contains (Vol II, p. 126) St Botolph's Priory, Essex d'après Cotman.' (his 1811 etching)
It also contains an elevation of the N. transept of Notre Dame sur l'Eau, Domfront.