Archive: SDK Sydney Decimus Kitson Archive
Reference Number: SDK/1/2/1/8
Page: 12 recto
Description
Colman collection at Crown Point (11)
Date:
Transcription
Another Portfolio, lettered 'J. S. Cotman'. Note by J. R. 'Twelve drawings in pencil, made for transfer to copperplates. From the coll[ectio]n of Mr Thomas Jeckyll, who bought them at G. H. Morrell's sale of Cotman drawings Nov: 1862 —
"Lot 223. Fourteen of the original drawings for Cotman’s Liber Studiorum by J.S Cotman- Jeckyll - 42 s/"
(1) Capel Carrig, interior of ch[urch] (No. 42) 4 ¾ x7 ¼ . Bistre outlines.
(2) Llanthony Abbey. (No. 34) 7 ¼ x 4 ¾. do.
(3) Conway. (No. 33) 7 ¼ x 4 ¾. do.
(4) Conway. (No. 31) 7 ¼ x 4 ¾ do.
(5) Caenarvon. (No. 32) 7 ¼ x 4 ¾ do.
(6) Caenarvon. (No. 28) 7 ¼ x 4 ¾ . do.
(7) Harlech Castle (not s.g. etching) 4 ¾ x 6 ¾. pencil only.
(8) Harlech Castle (No. 29) 7 ¼ x 4 ¾ Bistre outlines
(9) Harlech Castle (No. 25) 4 ¾ x 7 ¼ do.
(10) Devil's Bridge (No. 10) 7 ¼ x 4 ¾ do.
(11) Tan-y Bwlch. (No. 14) 4 ¾ x 6 ¾ pencil only
(12) Clifton (No. 2) (?)7 ¾ x 6 ¾. do.
The pencil work in all these drawings is rather hard & mechanical.