• Title
  [Camden Park House], 1843 / C. Martens
• Creator
  Conrad Martens, 1801-1878
• Call number
  DG 473
  
• Level of description
  fonds
• Date
  
  1843
• Type of material
  Graphic Materials, Watercolours
• Reference code
  52914
• Issue Copy
  Digitised
• Physical Description
  1 watercolour - 45.2 x 65 cm.
  
• Access Conditions
  
  Access via appointment
• Copying Conditions
  Out of copyright: Artist died before 1955.
  Please acknowledge:: Dixson Galleries, State Library of New South Wales
• Description source
  
  Title taken from typed label verso of painting
• General note
  
  Purchased from the estate of a direct descendant of John and Elizabeth Macarthur and their son, James Macarthur, who commissioned the work.
  
  Reproduced in:
  Some Houses and People of New South Wales / G. Nesta Griffiths. Sydney: Ure Smith, 1947, frontispiece.
  
  The art of Conrad Martens / Douglas Dundas. South Melbourne: Macmillan, 1979, p. 49. Conrad Martens : Life & Art / Elizabeth Ellis. Sydney: State Library of NSW Press, 1994, p. 112.
  Digital order no:Album ID : 954352
• Signatures / Inscriptions
  
  "C. Martens 1843" lower left
  Typed label verso: "The painting of "Camden Park House" by Conrad Martens dated 1843 was commissioned soon after the building was finished and sent by Mrs James Macarthur (nee Emily Stone) to her relatives in England. About the year 1900, Mrs J.W.Macarthur-Onslow when on a visit to England was given the picture by Mr Archie Norman of Bromley, Kent. It was bought back to Australia and hung at Gilbulla, Menangle. In 1931 it was moved to Camden Park House. When Mrs J.W.Macarthur-Onslow finally left Camden Park in 1947 the picture went with her. On her death in 1952 it passed to her daughter Mrs Elizabeth Enid Rothe".
  Other inscriptions on verso: "Reframed May 1959"; "Removed from Frame and Replaced 20/5/45"; "Mrs F.L.Rothe".
  Late-nineteenth century frame in which acquired now at F347; replaced with one previously on Conrad Martens's watercolour "View of Dapto", ZV*/Sp.Coll./Martens/49 (formerly ML 103) from the collection of David Scott Mitchell. The latter frame was probably supplied by Edwin Baldwin of Sydney.
• Topic
  colonial art
  gardens
  houses
  
• Place
  Camden Park Estate (N.S.W.)
  Camden Park (N.S.W.)
  
• Exhibited in
  
  Journeys through Landscapes - Conrad Martens Life & Art - State Library of New South Wales (21 November, 1994 - 3 July, 1995)

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