Archive: SDK Sydney Decimus Kitson Archive
Reference Number: SDK/1/2/1/5
Page: 18 recto
Description
Christie's catalogue of works by Cotman, 1843
Day 1, lots 1-9
Date: 1929-30
Transcription
1843.
18.
Catalogue of the beautiful original
Works in oils and watercolours of that
distinguished and highly esteemed Artist
John Sell Cotman Esq, deceased.
Which (by order of the Executors)
will be sold by auction by
Messrs Christie & Manson,
at their Great Room, 8 King St, St James' Square
on Wednesday May 17, 1843.
at one o'clock precisely.
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Drawings in Water Colour.
1. A Sketch of figures, etc. (4). Palser. 2s. 6d.
2. A Windmill on a River and a landscape (bistre [underlined in pencil]) (2). Beckford. 7.0.
3. Landscapes. (2). (?)Litterson. 6.0.
4. A River Scene, a sketch in oils, etc [underlined in pencil] (3). Caufield. 3.0.
5. A Sea Shore etc. (in bistre [underlined in pencil]) (3). Taylor. 3.6.
6. Mountainous Landscapes (3). } Litterson. 6.0. [refers to lots 6 and 7]
7. Small Landscapes. (3) }
8. A Commonwealth Soldier, etc. (2). Sleath. 5.0.
9. Drawings of Ladies highly finished [underlined in pencil] (3). d[itt]o. 9.0.