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Cotmania. Vol. VI. 1930-31

Archive: SDK Sydney Decimus Kitson Archive
Reference Number: SDK/1/2/1/6
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  • Description

    Aug: 14th 1930 diary entry

    Continuation of the diary entry of Aug: 14th, 1930

    Date: 1930-31

  • Transcription

    boats in a heavy sea, very sketchy, flaked all-overish
    sky, might have been done by any man, & could
    hardly have been done by J.S.C.
    (5) 'Tawny at Norwich. early.' Small. C. 8 x 12.
    tawny with a low full moon. bad drawing,
    full pigment. Not J.S.C. ? J.B.Crome.
    (6) 'Early Sketch' distant s.w. of a cathedral.
    {sketch} not J.S.C. Probably
    Lound. Has his nasty
    tortured railings. left
    foreground.
    (7) 'Boat Ashore.' C. 16 x 12.
    Nasty slate colour clouds, red brown foreground.
    black hulk. not J.S.C. ? Beverley.
    (8) Fishermen at Yarmouth East. not J.S.C.
    hard painting. ? J. Stannard or Collins.
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    There is also, "A View at Calais by R.P.Bonington,
    probably painted when he was 15, when his
    father set up as a Silk merchant in Calais."
    This is a variant of G. Balmer's View in
    Rotterdam, engraved in the Gallery of Modern
    British Art. 1835.

Aug: 14th 1930  diary entry