Archive: SDK Sydney Decimus Kitson Archive
Reference Number: SDK/1/2/1/6
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Sir Robert Witt's Collection of Photographs
SD Kitson's list of viewed works in the Robert Witt collection
Date: 1930-31
Transcription
Sir Robert Witt's Collection of Photographs.
Oil "Cotmans".
(1) An oil in the Widener Collection, Philadelphia. 30 x 41.
Barges and a windmill on a staithe. ("Miles". Sir C. Holmes)
(2) Oil: Signal Tower at Yarmouth. 21 x 16.
A great architectural (continental) tower. McCormick
collection: Chicago, from the collection of F. Chapman.
(3) Dudley Hall, Glos.
Oil, Twickenham, a forgery from the w.c. 19 3/4 x 23 3/4.
Leggatt, 1925.
(4)oil. A View on the Yare, with a pump house & wherries, on
panel. 11 1/2 x 15 1/2. Sale Christies 22.7.21. -dud-
(5) oil. Carnarvon Castle. from J.H. Galloway. Ayr.
might be Barret, certainly not J.S.C.
(6) oil: Moonlight on the Yare. Norwich in distance. 27 1/2 x 36.
Signed. John Gooch Collection: London. C.T. Ulrich $230.
Anderson sale, N.Y. 6.4.'16. No. 68. Forgery.
(7) oil. View of Lambeth Palace & Westminster. Fuller Maitland
Collection: 35 x 48 1/2. Scott & Fowles N.Y. 1927. A late 18th
century conscientious topographer's work.
(8) oil. Coast of Dover. 25 x 30. J.P. Pameler Collection
Washington. Bad dud.
(9) oil: The Landing. was in the Howatt sale, Christie's
25.6.26. bought by Gooden & Fox for 190 gs.