Pencil sketches by J.S. Cotman

L 4. 2⅝ x 7. Boats l . : Spit of shore with
fort & windmill.
No.67 pencil frame line.
inscribed Sheerness.
thin paper. Watermark . R RATT
green edged sketch book. 128

L 5 4½ x 7. Sketch of a pole with square
top. low shore & clouds behind
228 pencil frame line . inscribed
“Blk Tail Beam.”
Watermark HAGAD
thin paper 18

L 6. 4¼ x7 Sketch of the 'Shears'.
pencil frame line . inscribed
\229. 'Shears' .
thin paper . no watermark but
obviously from same sketch book
at L 5.

L 7 . 7 x 4½. 3 sketches. (1) top a hay
barge . (2) middle 2 boats .
No.139. (3) bottom . Ship on sea , enclosed
by pencil line . colour notes
inscribed.

L 8 5 x 4¼ drawing in soft pencil
Mr.Herbert Orfevre of a wooden tower , with
Clarence School ladder & anchor on l .
Weston-super-Mare
had a pencil sketch (probably by M. E. Cotman)
of this town, inscribed
'London Docks, Dolphin' thin paper .
June 25. 1831.' - 407 [ ].