Cotmania. Vol. IX. 1933-4

{Clipping with photo of work by Cotman title 'The Waterfall' featuring in an exhibition}

'THE WATERFALL' by John Sell Cotman, lent by Mr. R. J. Colman. There are thirty pictures by Cotman in the exhibition.

The Times January 6 1934

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{article referring to 'The Waterfall'}

to quote an instance of the perfect convention for English colour, there is " The Waterfall." by John Sell Cotman, in Gallery X—that masterpiece which so strangely and unconsciously betrays a deep affinity between British art and the art of Asia.

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{article alluding to Cotman in overview of British art}

Nor. though the strain of "Englishness " might be traced plausibly from the medieval illuminators and wall painters through WILLIAM BLAKE —an artist who simply could not have happened out of England—to the water-colourists, Cotman in particular, and the illustrators, has British art failed by European standards.