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The Cotman Letters 1834

Archive: SDK Sydney Decimus Kitson Archive
Reference Number: SDK/1/3/1/3
Page: 28

  • Description

    Extract from a letter of 26 January 1834 from Dawson Turner to Samuel Woodward (geologist and antiquary born in Norwich)

    Following Cotman’s departure from Norwich, Turner has commissioned one of the artist’s younger sons to make a hundred drawings of objects of antiquity in and near the city.

    Date: 1834

  • Transcription

    Jan: 26, 1834.
    Extract from a letter from Dawson Turner to Samuel Woodward —
    “The removal of Cotman from Norwich will be a sad loss to us, but I hope, at least, an equal gain to him. He leaves behind him one of his younger sons to whom I have proposed to make an hundred drawings of objects of antiquity in and near Norwich; &, if he agrees I shall greatly want your aid to direct him. I need not say that of any drawings he makes, or indeed of any I have, you are always welcome to copies.”
    Yarmouth.

    [Communicated by W. R. Dawson – Woodward Correspondence vol viii – No. 12.]

Extract from a letter of 26 January 1834 from Dawson Turner to Samuel Woodward (geologist and antiquary born in Norwich)