Archive: SDK Sydney Decimus Kitson Archive
Date: March 1924-29 Nov 1949
Reference Number: SDK/2/2/1
Description
Ten files all labelled [in Hake's hand]:
'Etchings after Cotman. Cotman's Liber Studiorum (soft ground). Title page of the 'Grand Festival',
'Lithographs after Cotman. Etchings by Cotman - in large black solander',
'Kitson Bequest II. Smaller of the large solanders. (received from N.P.G. [National Portrait Gallery] 29-11-49)',
'Kitson bequest II. Contents of small [mottled] solander',
'Etchings by Cotman and others',
'Miscellaneous Watercolours and drawings by various hands',
'Kitson Bequest II. Books & M.S.S. [manuscripts] relating to Cotman',
'Kitson' [watercolours],
'Drawings and Watercolours by William Turner (of Oxford)',
'Sketches and Drawings' - this file comprise multiple lists and inventories including, the 'Kitson Collection of drawings etc. by John Sell Cotman and other artists placed on deposit in the City Art Gallery, Leeds' for a period of ten years from January 1st 1939, as a study collection'.