Pencil sketches by J.S. Cotman

D .4. 3 ½ x 5. A boat with 2 masts, no sails,
No.118 3 men on board. inset top centre
½ length, back view of a sailor. Colour
M 'blk' 'azure' notes. 'Strong shadow
8.10.88 'this light thro' on thick tinted paper. Very dark & [ ]'
“Boat Ink with variations of that colour........warmed okir
incls to greenish, man [ ]”.

                      D  5.      Triangular.   5 ¼ x 5 ¼.
              No.155.       Study of barge,  with rigging.
                                    Reverse part of pencil drawing for
                                     the etching  Caistor Castle.  Plate
                                      50  Cotman's etching's of arch[itectural]
                                        Remains.

D. 6. 3 11/16 x 7 1/16. 2 boats on Shore : man
Standing in one on l. 2 figures on r.
No.235. Reverse . Standing figure with
boy sitting on ground in front.
Thick tinted paper.

D 7 7 x 4⅛. Boat on the sand mud.
with colour notes.
No.236. reverse. Sketch of same subject
lined with pencil 1 ½ x 2 ½.
Thin paper. watermark.
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