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- Created by
- Thomas Cooper Gotch 1854–1931
- Title
- Autobiographical notes of Thomas Cooper Gotch
- Date
- [c.1891]
- Format
- Document - writings
- Collection
- Tate Archive
- Acquisition
- An initial donation of the papers of Tuke and Gotch was made to the Tate Archive by Mr Brian D. Price in 1990. Additional donations of related material were made in 1991, 1994 and 2002.
- Reference
- TGA 9019/2/1/1
Description
Brief monthly entries recording important events in Gotch's life during each year. These contain information about his art education, his living arrangements, his marriage to Caroline Yates, the birth of their daughter Phyllis and their travels abroad to Europe, Australia and South Africa. Also includes details of his portraits and paintings, where they were exhibited and his involvement with various clubs and societies. Information about his social life and the activities of his family and friends is also recorded.
Written by Gotch and internal evidence suggests that it was written retrospectively.
Archive context
- The personal papers of Thomas Cooper Gotch (1854-1931) and Henry Scott Tuke (1858-1929) TGA 9019 (201)
- The papers of Thomas Cooper Gotch (1854-1931) TGA 9019/2 (40)
- Diaries and volumes TGA 9019/2/1 (2)
- Autobiographical notes of Thomas Cooper Gotch TGA 9019/2/1/1
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8 August 1915 -
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c.1915 -
Thomas Cooper Gotch, recipient: War Refugees Committee Letter from Thomas Cooper Gotch to W. Hennessey Cook, War Refugees Committee
14 January 1915 -
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1885 -
Anonymous Mounted photograph of Henry Scott Tuke with Albert Chevalier Tayler
[c.1883] -
Alfred Harris Mounted photograph of Henry Scott Tuke (seated) with Jack Rolling
[c.1886] -
John Michaux, recipient: Thomas Cooper Gotch Letter from John Michaux to Thomas Cooper Gotch
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