• Title
  [Sydney from North Shore] / C. Martens
• Creator
  Conrad Martens, 1801-1878
• Call number
  DG 216
  
• Level of description
  fonds
• Date
  
  1840
• Type of material
  Graphic Materials, Paintings
• Reference code
  825830
• Physical Description
  1 painting - oil on canvas - 47.0 x 65.8 cm in contemporary gilded frame 66.5 x 86.0 cm
  
• Access Conditions
  
  Access via appointment
• Copying Conditions
  Out of copyright:
  Please acknowledge:: Dixson Galleries, State Library of New South Wales
• Variant title
  
  Previously titled 'Sydney and Botany Bay from North Shore' from former frame label
• General note
  
  “This may be the painting for 'W.[Thomas?] Icely’ as colour tones are very like 'Sydney from Sandy Bay, 1840’ DL 23 purchased by Icely a few weeks before; the two may have been intended as a pair”.
  
  “Two works with similar titles are listed in 1842: 'Sydney from N.Shore J.Brown [erased replaced with] sold to J.Campbell £15.15.0', probably the oil illustrated in Deutscher Fine Art, Melbourne Catalogue Nov. 1988, no. 5; the other is Sydney from St. Leonards Novr. 1841', DG 62”
  
  Related Account book entries, 1840, all 15 guineas: 8 Feb. 'View Sydney fr. N[orth] Shore W.[Thoas?]Icely Esq'; 17 June `Sydney from N.Shore Egleston Esq.'; 2 Sept. 'Sydney from N.Shore A.McGaa Esq’; 9 Nov. 'Sydney from N.Shore John Campbell [erased replaced with] Edwards Esq.
  
  Reference: Conrad Martens: life and art / Elizabeth Ellis, 1994, p. 156
• Signatures / Inscriptions
  
  Signed and dated lower right 'C. Martens, Sydney 1840'
• Subject
  Art, Colonial--Australia.
  
• Topic
  harbours
  city & town views
  
• Place
  Sydney Cove (N.S.W.)
  Sydney (N.S.W.)
  
• Exhibited in
  
  Painted panorama 1800-1870: paintings from the Mitchell and Dixson collections of the State Library of New South Wales - Blaxland Gallery (1 November - 30 November, 1985)
  Journeys through Landscapes - Conrad Martens Life & Art - State Library of New South Wales (November, 1994 - July, 1995)
  Conrad Martens Centenary Exhibition - S.H. Ervin Museum and Art Gallery (May, 1978 - July, 1978)
• Open Rosetta viewer
  IE20519120

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