Archive: SDK Sydney Decimus Kitson Archive
Reference Number: SDK/1/2/1/7
Page: 26 verso
Description
Kitson's diary entry for 26 August 1932
A further visit to John Sell Cotman of Reading: works by the Cotman family and Crome (47-60)
Date: 1932
Transcription
(47) Street in a Norwich suburb. “J. J. Cotman 1860.” 15 x 27. Watercolours.
(48) Landscape with sunset, watercolours, by J. J. C (unsigned). 6½ x 10 – poor.
*(49) A weir & foliage. Watercolour in paste medium, by M. E. C (unsigned) 5½ x 11.
**(50) Rough watercolour sketch – On the River. ‘J. J. Cotman’, 5¼ x 9. Watercolour & body colour.
**(51) Water colour (with body colour) On the River. Very blue J. J. Cotman 1877. (F. Sandys’ influence). 7¼ x 11.
(52) Oil. Sketch on the river, by J. J. C (unsigned.) Very bleary, late.
Passage to own bedroom.
(53) Watercolour. “By Trowse Bridge, Norfolk J. J. C 1855.” 15 x 27.
(54) Watercolour. Landscape. “J. J. Cotman 1842.” 15 x 30.
(55) Watercolour. Landscape. “J. J. Cotman”. 15 x 26.
(56) Water Colour. Foundry Bridge, Norwich. “J. J. Cotman 1876.” 15½ x 28.
*(57) Water Colour. Scene in Thorpe. dark green trees, by J. J. C (unsigned) 14 x 10½.
Own Bedroom.
**(58) Tinted pencil sketch of a castle on a rock in a lake – by J. S. C. but what date? perhaps, c. 1815. 8 x 12½.
(59) Water colour, wooded landscape. ‘ J. J. Cotman 1850’. 16½ x 27.
(60.) Pencil drawing, sky tinted blue, the rest greenish sepia[.] ”J. Crome 1807.” “Farmyard”, 9¾ x 17.