Archive: SDK Sydney Decimus Kitson Archive
Reference Number: SDK/1/2/1/5
Page: 51 recto
Description
Catalogue of Sir Hickman Bacon's Cotmans
Items 25-30
See Turner and his Contemporaries: The Hickman Bacon Watercolour Collection (2012): A Beached Barge near Battersea Bridge, pp. 90-91.
Date: 1929-30
Transcription
(25) ** A Devonshire (?) Village - an early w[ater]c[olour], looking down into a ravine. Hills & sea beyond - the hills are yellow - a bridge r. - figures bottom left - has been cut down. 9½ x 13. c. 1802-3.
(26) ** Old Battersea Bridge - w[ater]c[olour]. c. 1805(?)
Strong in colour - fine, if crude - real developed Cotman.
A wooden bridge l. house & trees r. basket & dog on gravel foreground.
13 x 11¼ — on rough paper.
(27) Gunton Park. w[ater]c[olour] (rep[roduce]d in Binyon's 'Crome & Cotman') 14½ x 10 — late — accomplished.
(28) *** On the Greta. w[ater]c[olour] (rep[roduce]d in Oppé's book) 'Greta River. 25' in Cotman's writing on back — 13 x 9
(29) On the Ramparts at Domfort [i.e. Domfront?]. (rep[roduce]d in Oppé's book) w[ater]c[olour]. 7 x 11.
(30) *** [Scene on the Wharfe? Barden Tower? (crossed out in pencil)] Sepia.
{Sketch of 30 by Kitson} 8½ x 12½. - on ribbed paper - ex coll[ection]s Dr Burney & Dr Percy, who bought it, 1875, of Pocock. Dr P. wrote on back "I consider it a fine drawing J. P."
J. C. Robinson, who bought it at Dr Percy's Sale lot 270 - (2.10.0) - wrote "So do I J. C. Robinson 1890".
inscribed on back, in ink.
"Cotman Ajt. 20 1803"
? [Ap[ri]l added in pencil]