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