John Sell Cotman

The Parish Chest in Blickling Church, Norfolk. Called 'An old chest'
1841

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Sydney Decimus Kitson, 'The Catalogue of the Collection of Drawings by J.S.Cotman', 1924-1937, unpublished typescript [Leeds Art Gallery, The Kitson Archive, 1924 - 1937] cat.679;

'10 x 10 1/2. Charcoal drawing on buff paper, heightened with white, of an old chest.

Inscribed 'Front of chest to be as long from A to B. Blickling, Novr 10. 1841'.

Bought from Coop (per Norwich Museum) Sep.1930. he had it from F G Cotman';

• Provenance

  F.G.Cotman to Coop (Norwich Museum)

  Coop (Norwich Museum) by whom sold September 1930 to Sydney Decimus Kiitson

  S.D.Kitson (1871 - 1937) bequeathed to Leeds Art Gallery and accessioned 1949;

• Published References

  SDKitson, Life of Cotman, p360 "Next day [November 10, 1841] he made a fine drawing of the Pound at Blickling, and a rapid note of an old chest in Blickling Church"Sydney Decimus Kitson, 'The Catalogue of the Collection of Drawings by J.S.Cotman', 1924-1937, unpublished typescript [Leeds Art Gallery, The Kitson Archive, 1924 - 1937] cat.679;

  Sydney Decimus Kitson, 'The Life of John Sell Cotman' [London: Faber & Faber, 1937] p.360;

  'Leeds City Art Galleries: Concise Catalogue', [Leeds, Leeds City Council, 1976] cat. 9.682/49;

  Miklos Rajnai and Marjorie Allthorpe-Guyton, 'John Sell Cotman 1782-1842: Early Drawings (1798-1812) in Norwich Castle Museum' [Norwich: Norfolk Museums Service, 1979 under no 119, n.9.3;

  David Boswell and Corinne Miller, 'Cotmania and Mr Kitson' [Leeds: Leeds City Art Galleries, 1992], p.59, no.44';

• Exhibition History

  Leeds, Leeds City Art Galleries, 1992, 25 November 1992-24 February 1993, 'Cotmania and Mr Kitson', no.44;

• Related Objects

  Black and white chalk sketch of 'Blickling Park', 1841, Norwich Castle Museum (NWHCM : 1951.235.322);

  Black and white chalk and watercolour sketch of 'The Lumber Room, Aylsham Manor', 1841, at the Vancouver Art Gallery, Canada (32.2).

• Inscriptions

  "Front of chest to be as long as from / A [arrow] to [arrow] B / Blicking. Nov 10th 1841" charcoal, bottom centre.

• Alternate Numbers

  Other number: 9.682/49
  Previous Number: LEEAG.PA.1949.0009.0682
  Negative Number: 865/37(21a)
  Kitson Number: KITSON.679