Cotmania. Vol. IV. 1929-30

Willis's Rooms. 17.7.30.
J S Cotman.
40 Shipping off the Coast
This is the '1820' - dud- up at Christie's . 21.3.30
Cotman
62 A Coast Scene with Buildings, Boats and Figures
Has a charming 'Norwichy' look. Could it be Thirtle?

At Matthews + Brooke's [German] Show.
JOHN SELL COTMAN, a.r.w.s. Normandy Crypt
(?) the one at Walkers in 1928.

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EXHIBITION AT COTSWOLD GALLERIES. July 1930

ENGLISH DRAWINGS
Consisting of 32 drawings in pencil, chalk, and wash by Turner, Cotman, Dayes, Prout, and others, the present exhibition at the Cotswold Gallery, 59, Frith-street, forms an ideal opportunity for the quieter sort of artistic entertainment. With two exceptions, including "Schloss Eltz, on the Moselle," of 1843, in which the design is mainly wiped out of a grey wash, all the Turners are early -about 1793- and in pencil outline, and in their inclusion of landscape effect, the conditioning of light and atmosphere, with the careful delineation of architecture, they afford an interesting comparison with the examples of Prout, in which architectural detail itself seems to be the aim of the drawing. Compare "St. Martin's Priory, Dover," with "Eltville," for instance. The Cotmans are all of the type of "drawing copies," and so they show to advantage the qualities that distinguish his most deliberate efforts; his breath of vision, power of simplification, and extraordinary capacity for suggesting the weight and settlement of masonry. "Cottage with Figures" and "A Cottage at Llangollen" may be quoted. That underrated artist Edward Dayes, who was Girtin's master, is represented by five drawings, including a view of "Gibride Park from Goodshieldhaugh." There are two Faringtons, both studies on the Clyde, of which "Roseneath, from above Garloch," is the happiest design. "Evening," a landscape with cattle in sepia, by William Turner of Oxford, recalls Samuel Palmer, who is himself represented by his intensely romantic design"Moeris and Galatea" for Virgil's "Ninth Eclogue" and two other drawings. By his friend Edward Clavert there is a large study of two figures, "Sicilian Pastoral," and the exhibition ends with an unexpectedly fresh and slight study of "Waterloo Bridge" by William Hunt.
The Times. 19.7.30.

DRAWINGS
In Pencil, Chalk, & Wash

by
J M W Turner
John Sell Cotman
Samuel Prout
Edward Dayes
and others
July 1930

1. West Dereham Church. J Sell Cotman
2. A Cottage at Drayton Norton. J Sell Cotman
3. Colnebrook Moor. J Sell Cotman
4. Cottage with Figures. J Sell Cotman
5. Cottage at Lakenham. J Sell Cotman.
6. A Cottage at Llangollen J Sell Cotman.