Cotmania. Vol. VII. 1931-2
Archive: SDK Sydney Decimus Kitson Archive
Reference Number: SDK/1/2/1/7
Page: 18 verso
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Description
Record of Kitson's visit to Belfast and diary entry for 25 July 1932
A record of Kitson's comment on his 'most interesting visit' to the Belfast Art Gallery, from the Gallery's annual report; visit to the National Gallery to discuss Kitson's Dead Christ and possible attributions to the Carracci, N[icolas] P[oussin], Carpioni. [Now attributed to Pietro Testa (1611-1650); presented by Kitson to the Ashmolean Museum in 1934: see Cotmania, X, fol. 14v, and http://www.ashmolean.org/ash/objects/makedetail.php?pmu=730&mu=732>y=asea&sec=&dtn=40&sfn=Title&cpa=1&cnum=&mat=&pro=&anum=&art=Pietro&ttl=&sou=&rpos=4.]
Date: 1932
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Transcription
CITY AND COUNTY BOROUGH OF BELFAST
REPORT
of the Committee of
THE PUBLIC MUSEUMS AND
ART GALLERY
For the Year ending 31st March, 1932.
SOME IMPRESSIONS DURING THE YEAR AS SHOWN BY THE
VISITORS’ BOOK.
MR. SYDNEY D. KITSON, Oxford “A most interesting visit.”July 25, 1932. Took my ‘Dead Christ’ to the N. G. Daniel said it was a very swagger drawing, murmured [?] something about ‘the Carracci’, did not lean to N. P. Called next day when H. I. Kay said none of them thought it N. P. Davis (who was working on N. P.) was sure it wasn’t & suggested Giulio Carpioni 1611-1674.
