Cotman, John Sell (1782 – 1842) – France; Normany, the North Transept of St Georges de Boscherville.
Cotman, John Sell (1782 - 1842)
France; Normany, the North Transept of St Georges de Boscherville.
Pencil. c.1818. Made with a camera lucida or Cornelius Varley's 'Patent Graphic Telescope'. Provenance: Dr John Sell Cotman (great-great grandson of the artist); his widow, Dorothy Cotman; Sotheby's 12 July 1967 (lot 190?); […]; Michael and Megan Dawson.
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Cotman made drawings of St Georges de Boscherville in 1817 and on a return trip in 1818. They became the basis for seven plates in his 'Architectural Antiquities of Normandy' (1819-1822). This drawing was made with an optical device as an intermediary between an initial sketch (now in the National Gallery of Canada) and the finished drawing from which his etching was made. When he left for France in June 1817 Cotman was given one of Cornelius Varley's 'Patent Graphic Telescopes' so it seems likely that was the device Cotman used. We are grateful to Timothy Wilcox for his help cataloguing this drawing.
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