• Title
  [The Iron House, Kirribilli] / painted by Conrad Martens
• Creator
  Conrad Martens, 1801-1878
• Call number
  ML 1093
  
• Level of description
  fonds
• Date
  
  December 1856
• Type of material
  Graphic Materials, Watercolours
• Reference code
  89020
• Issue Copy
  Digitised
• Physical Description
  1 watercolour - with bodycolour and gum arabic, in nineteenth-century moulded and gilded frame, probably of English origin - 45.5 x 65.5 cm. visible image
  
• Access Conditions
  
  Access via appointment
• Copying Conditions
  Out of copyright: Creator died before 1955
  Please acknowledge:: Mitchell Library, State Library of New South Wales
• General note
  
  Listed in Conrad Martens's Notebook 2 [Account book 1856-1878], ZDLMS 143, f. 4: "Decr. 23, 1856 The House [sold to] Chas. Riley Pa[id] 18.18 [i.e. 18 guineas]"
  Reproduced in This was Sydney : a pictorial history from 1788 to the present time / Suzanne Mourot. Sydney : Ure Smith, 1968, p. 136. Location number: 981.1/57A3 Mitchell Library; [Collection of catalogues ... ] / Leonard Joel. Melbourne, 1976- . Location number: PICTURES Q017.3/8 SET Mitchell Library, Australian and European ... oil paintings, watercolours ... 22-23 November 1994, lot 141, p. 46
  See also Municipality of North Sydney : History and progress from the earliest settlement 1788-1938 / G.V.F. Mann. North Sydney : Municipal Council, 1938, pp. 34-37. Location number: 991.1/M Mitchell Library; Historical notes ... to accompany his sketches of early buildings / G.V.F. Mann. Location number: ZA 3212, v.2, f. 30-32 Mitchell Library Manuscripts Collection
  See Notes on The Iron House (or The Dingle), Kirribilli ... Location number: PXn 888 Mitchell Library Original Materials Reading Room
  See Mitchell Library Pictures Collection, Small Pictures File, Sydney - Suburbs - Milsons Point (BM) for a photographic print by Kerry & Co., c. 1870s, of the Iron House, 1855
  Colour transparency digitised 1998
  Other copies: Small Pictures File Sydney - Residences - Iron House, and Mitchell Library Manuscripts Collection, Ar 102/2, b&w photoprints taken ca. 1960 (glass negative, Pictures Collection GN 15)
  Digital order no:Album ID : 874372
• Signatures / Inscriptions
  
  C Martens lower left in red brushpoint
• Subject
  Art, Colonial--Australia.
  
• Topic
  houses
  prefabricated buildings
  
• Place
  Iron House, The (Kirribilli, N.S.W.)
  
• Exhibited in
  
  Journeys through Landscapes - Conrad Martens Life & Art - State Library of New South Wales (21 November, 1994 - 3 July, 1995)
  Town & Country: portraits of Colonial Homes & Gardens - Bendigo Art Gallery (March 2005 - April 2006)
  Built for the bush : the green architecture of rural Australia - Historic Houses Trust of New South Wales (February, 2010 - July, 2010)

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