Cotmania. Vol. VII. 1931-2

(72) Two little oils, 4⅜ x 5½, one on canvas, one on wood, landscape. ? J. J. C, might be J. S. C.
*(73) A group of 3 adults in centre, 2 children on l[eft] – at side, buildings pencilled in, on mahogany a 1 coat oil sketch. Varnish very brown. ? a Normandy subject, certainly by J. S. C.
*(74) Pencil on white paper. Two greyhounds, by J. J or possibly by J. S. C (?) 12½ x 8.
(75) A small boy leaning against a post – “Cotman Kings College.” 11 x 8½.
*(76) Copy of St. John preaching in the Wilderness, by Guido Reni – ‘J. J. C’. 12¼ x 9¼. Charcoal & white on buff paper.
(77) Watercolour. River Scene. Yellow & scarlet. Wild pencilwork. “J. J. Cotman June 11, 1874.” 15½ x 27.
(78) Pencil, green & red chalk on buff paper. ‘J. J. Cotman, Thorpe’, all corners rounded, poor & illcomposed. 13 x 20.
(79) Sepia. Man in armour seated drinking. A nun enters thro’ arch – bad 13 x 9½.
In office.
**(80) Watercolour by J. S. C. A little blue landscape (3½ x 4) with ‘Unfinished’ written on sky, with a sepia renaissance surround: double eagle in black at top. Red lion rampant at bottom. Surrounded by green palm leaves, in an old frame. 15 x 10¾.
(81) A sheet of sketches, 18 & 2 missing. Pencil of a child ‘Bottle. Jan 14 1822’. another outline of 2 figures in the ‘Harvest field’, but smaller. [Sketch by Kitson with dimensions 2¼” [l.h. figure], 2½” [r.h. figure], 3 [horizontal].] – now S. D. K.
[Note in margin:] Alfred Cotman was born Oct 11, 1810.