Cotmania. Vol. V. 1929-30
Archive: SDK Sydney Decimus Kitson Archive
Reference Number: SDK/1/2/1/5
Page: 54 recto
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Description
Catalogue of Sir Hickman Bacon's Cotmans
Items 43-47
See Turner and his Contemporaries: The Hickman Bacon Watercolour Collection (2012): Tintern Abbey by Moonlight, pp. 82-83 (and http://www.art-of-the-day.info/e11322-romantic-watercolor-the-hickman-bacon-collection.html); A Figure in a Boat on a River, pp. 96-97 (and http://www.museums.norfolk.gov.uk/Visit_Us/Norwich_Castle/Past_Exhibitions/2005/The_Golden_Age_of_Watercolours/index.htm).Date: 1929-30
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Transcription
(43) * Trees on a River: man fishing. Late w[ater]c[olour]. egg paste.
{Sketch of 43 by Kitson} 7¼ x 10½.
(44) Tintern Abbey - w[ater]c[olour], Very early. 1800(?) 'J. S. Cotman'
browns & greys - Girtinesque - miniature - architecture not understood. 15 x 10½.
(45) ** Bedingham Ch[urch] Norfolk. c 1831(?) Very fine & modern. W[ater]c[olour]. interior view, with pulpit & pews (dark blue velvet cloth to pulpit) - screen beyond — 12¼ x 8¼.
(46) Cows watering in a pond. — Wall beyond (cf Walker’s pencil drawing illustrated in one of his catalogues). w[ater]c[olour]
rather hot in colour. c. 1826(?) 9 x 13.
(47) ** A Man with an eel basket trap, in a stream.
rocks, etc. No sky – beautiful tone – The man has a red waistcoat – no coat.
Greta period. 6½ x 12.
