• Title
  Island of Moorea (Eimeo) near Tahiti, 1840 / painted by C. Martens
• Creator
  Conrad Martens, 1801-1878
• Call number
  DG 215
  
• Level of description
  fonds
• Date
  
  1840
• Type of material
  Graphic Materials, Paintings
• Reference code
  825827
• Issue Copy
  Digitised
• Physical Description
  1 painting - oil on canvas - 47 x 65.8 cm. in contemporary gilded frame, 66 x 85 cm.
  
• Access Conditions
  
  Access via appointment
• Copying Conditions
  Out of copyright: Creator died before 1955
  Please acknowledge:: Dixson Galleries, State Library of New South Wales
• Published Information
  Conrad Martens: life and art / Elizabeth Ellis. Sydney : State Library of New South Wales Press, 1994
• Description source
  
  Title inscribed in ink on reverse by the artist
• General note
  
  “Moorea formerly known as Eimeo is the second largest of the Windward group, Society Island in the Pacific Ocean, twelve miles north west of Tahiti.”
  
  Related pencil drawings (not relating exactly but of same bay and settlement): `Apareitu Jany 23/35’; Apareitu Moorea Jany 22/35-, originals in Cambridge University Library UK, ADD. MS 7984
  
  Account book possibly 29 Sept. 1840 `Moorea Apareitu’ [James] Hague £15.15.0
  
  Conrad Martens: life and art / Elizabeth Ellis, 1994, pg. 155.
  Digital order no:Album ID : 861728
• Signatures / Inscriptions
  
  Signed and dated `C. Martens 1840’ in paint in lower left corner.
• Subject
  Art, Colonial--Australia.
  
• Topic
  mountains
  Tahitians
  boats
  oil paintings
  huts
  
• Place
  Moorea (French Polynesia)
  
• Exhibited in
  
  Our painted past : paintings from the Dixson Galleries collection - State Library of New South Wales (14 March - 8 August, 1990)
  Journeys through Landscapes - Conrad Martens Life & Art - State Library of New South Wales (November, 1994 - July, 1995)
  The legacy of Charles Darwin in Australia - Ian Potter Museum of Art
• Open Rosetta viewer
  IE420885

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