Archive: SDK Sydney Decimus Kitson Archive
Reference Number: SDK/1/2/1/7
Page: 23 verso
Description
Works owned by Mr & Mrs John Sell Cotman
List of works by John Sell Cotman and others owned by Mr & Mrs John Sell Cotman, near Reading (23)-(31)
Date: 1932
Transcription
(23) Watercolour. Landscape, trees on r[ight]. Signed M. A. R. (?) 4 x 7½.
(24)* Watercolour. Mountains, Lake & Cattle. (?) Llyn Ogwen, late paste medium, 6½ x 10½.
(25) Watercolour. A boat shed, 9 x 12, rather weak J. S. C. A pencil drawing of a lych gate ‘M. E. Cotman 1821.’ (in J. S. C’s writing) on the back, an astonishingly good copy for a boy of 11.
(26)* Tinted drawing. Interior of Deanery at Norwich, at foot of Stairs, window w[ith] coats of arms in front. c. 1824-6.
A copy of this drawing by Arthur Batchelor 12¼ x 9, is in the poss[essio]n of Mrs Beeching, widow of the Dean of Norwich, seen Oct: 11, 1932.
(27)* Water Colour. The broken bridges. 9 x 12¾, c 1824, in poor condition.
(28) Watercolour. A landscape 10 x 14. Surely not by J. S. C
(29) Watercolour. Old Battersea Bridge, a replica of Sir H. Bacon’s – (?) a copy by Thirtle 12¼ x 10¾.
(30) A long landscape watercolour by J. J. C (on piano.)
(31) A square landscape watercolour by J. J. C (very good.)