The Cotman Collection | 88

The Cotman Letters 1804-1833

Archive: SDK Sydney Decimus Kitson Archive
Reference Number: SDK/1/3/1/2
Page: 88


  • Description

    J.S.Cotman asks Mrs Dawson Turner to have Specimens of Norman and Gothic Architecture dedicated to her.

    Letter from J. S. Cotman to Mrs Mary Dawson Turner (née Palgrave) 19th July 1823.

    Date: 19 Jul 1823

  • Transcription

    72
    To Mrs Dawson Turner.
    July 19th 1823.

    Dear Madam,

    The good taste ever displayed by you, and the superior talents you have shown in an Art in which I have practised professionally, have long been seen and acknowledged during the tried & steady friendship of yourself & Mr Dawson Turner.
    Respect for the first and encouraged and on the faith of the latter, I ask a favour at your hands, no less a one, dear Madam, than to request you to become the Lady Patroness to my new publication of 'Specimens of Norman & Gothic Architecture in the County of Norfolk,' and to allow me to render [at least] one page of the work at least valuable by by illuminating the dedications with your name.
    Dear madam, with the greatest respect, your obliged & devoted servant John Sell Cotman.

    The first published copy of the work is reserved for your acceptance, with the Author's highest regards.

    /
    (pencil note)
    [Original letter is in Dawson Turner's copy of 'Specimens of Norman & Gothic Architecture' in the Print Room of the British Museum]

J.S.Cotman asks Mrs Dawson Turner to have Specimens of Norman and Gothic Architecture  dedicated to her.