The Cotman Collection | 39

Pencil sketches by J.S. Cotman

Archive: SDK Sydney Decimus Kitson Archive
Reference Number: SDK/1/2/4/3
Page: 39


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    Pencil Sketches Page 39

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    P 15 2¼ x 2 ¼ one masted & sail boat, with figure in stern
    178 on very thin paper.

    P 16. 2¾ x 3. (top corner cut off) one masted
    No.203. barge. on reverse a blurred drawing
    of a (?) balustrade.

    P 17 2 x 2⅜. 2 masted vessel , with sails ,
    \179. medium paper.

    P 18 1½ x 2⅛ 2 masted boat, men with oars
    No.203 thin paper.

    P 19 3 x 1½ one masted boat with sail, reverse
    No.231. part of a boat. medium paper. top
    corner clipped .

    P 20 2 x 2¾ 2 masted barge , very faint
    246 thin paper.

    P 21. 2⅝ x 2⅛. one masted boat with
    No.180 sails, a smaller boat to
    l , thin paper .
    P 22 . 2⅛ x 3⅜. 3 sketches , (1)l one masted
    No.156. boat with sails & small boat astern (?) top r ,
    do. (3) bottom r small boat , square
    sail & people on board. Thin paper.
    Water mark

    '109' in blue pencil SHEET Q Watermark .
    '18' in large 20 x 13¾ CHARLES WISE
    characters, in black 13¾ x 20. 1819.
    pencil , on back.
    Q 1 - numbered “1” top l corner,
    3½ x 5½ 4 views of Coast from Sea . (1) top
    inscribed , “Lowest[oft] , (2) windmill & trees (see
    inscriptions) (3) Church inscribed 'Castleton' & Lowcliff.
    buoy in l foreground, inscribed raw mud.

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