Archive: SDK Sydney Decimus Kitson Archive
Date: Mar 1924-29 Febr 1940
Reference Number: SDK/1/2/2/1
Description
Kitson’s catalogue (one of two copies of the same) of his collection of Cotman works. Loose sheets of typescript.
The catalogue of 845 works contains the following information about each: Title, date, size (in inches), medium and ground, whether signed or not, publication (in case of etchings) details, places exhibited, provenance and notes, or quotes from Cotman's letters, describing some aspect of the of the work, for example the palette of paints used, or information about the subject matter. There are annotations [some in Sydney's hand, some in Hake's] in both catalogues.