Cotmania. Vol. V. 1929-30
Archive: SDK Sydney Decimus Kitson Archive
Reference Number: SDK/1/2/1/5
Page: 45 recto
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Description
Catalogue of Sir Hickman Bacon's Cotmans
Items 1-5
See Turner and his Contemporaries: The Hickman Bacon Watercolour Collection (2012): Brecknock, pp. 80-81; Draining Mill, pp. 92-93; Bedlam Furnace, pp. 84-85 (and http://www.museums.norfolk.gov.uk/Visit_Us/Norwich_Castle/Past_Exhibitions/2005/The_Golden_Age_of_Watercolours/John_Sell_Cotman/index.htm).Date: 1929-30
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Transcription
Catalogue of Sir Hickman Bacon's Cotmans at Thonock.
Sept: 16-17, 1929.
(1) ** Scene in the Black Country — (?) Bedlam Furnace, Madeley Vale.
very beautiful - light concentrated on centre pond in foreground
Gnarled tree and derelict wheel l. Woman in red cloak retreating r.
Rather wiped & worried - c. 1802. 10½ x 18.
(2) * Windmill, with figure r. Rep[roduce]d in Binyon's 'Cotman & Crome'
Very blue sky, r. Mill black. no egg paste. c. 1826-8(?) 21 x 15?
(3) Brecknock. prob. exh[ibite]d R[oyal] A[cademy] 1801. 15 x 21½.
{Sketch of 3 by Kitson} - rather muddy & worried, but fine. (80£ from Palser)
(4) * "Gunton Park" Study for the w[ater]c[olour] belonging to Sir H.B.B. rep[roduce]d in 'Cotman & Crome' by Binyon - Soft pencil & white chalk on grey paper - c. 1828(?) - 15½ x 13.
(5) * "Itteringham Nov. 12, 1841" - Charcoal & white chalk on brown paper - original drawing for the lithograph - 14½ x 10½.
