Archive: SDK Sydney Decimus Kitson Archive
Reference Number: SDK/1/2/1/5
Page: 46 recto
Description
Catalogue of Sir Hickman Bacon's Cotmans
Items 6-10
See Turner and his Contemporaries: The Hickman Bacon Watercolour Collection (2012): New Bridge, Durham, pp. 88-89
Date: 1929-30
Transcription
(6) The New Bridge, Durham. 17 x 12¾. Water-colour. - reproduced in Oppé's 'Cotman'.
(7) **** 'Norwood Church, near Osterley Park, Middlesex' (inscribed on back of drawing). 16¼ x 12¼.
{Sketch of 7 by Kitson} Indigo has flown, lovely (?Antwerp) blue sky - very lovely d[ra]w[in]g - dotty - no pencil showing.
Signed 'J. S. Cotman 1803'. &, on tombstones, 'J.S.C' - '1803'.
(8) * Entrance to Falaise - 17 x 11¾ - w[ater]c[olour]
ex coll[ection] Lady Eastlake. Ex[hibite]d Burlington F. A. Club (72) in 1888.
Fine, but rather 'late' - c 1826 (?)
(9) ** A Landscape with Trees. Seated man (in pencil) r. foreground. A vale beyond. Sepia & yellowish sepia. (like several of R. J. Colman's) - 11½ x 17 - c. 1830-39.
(10) ** Richmond, Yorks. Watercolour (Rep[roduce]d in Oppé's 'Cotman') 13½ x 17¼ - c. 1803 or '04.