Madiera [sic, i.e. Madeira] II : [Sketchbook, Falmouth, Eng., 8 May 1833 - Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, 6 July 1833 / Conrad Martens]

PXB 348

fonds

1833

Graphic Materials, Photographs

128953

Copy print : PXB 348

Photographs - 38 b&w photoprints 8 x 10" of original pencil or pencil and wash drawings 21.5 x 14 cm. (sheet) in sketchbook with marbled paper cover boards, half calf, with remains of tape fastening

Reproduction Restricted

See Catalogue Drawings & Watercolours by Conrad Martens; Journey from England to Australia ... May 1833 - April 1835. Compiled by Michael Organ, Sept. 1994. Unpublished typescript. Location number : PXn 896, Mitchell Library Original Materials Reading Room. This work gives the sequence of this sketchbook and others kept by Martens on the voyage. See also Journal of a Voyage ... [Martens's manuscript account]. Location number : ZA 429, Mitchell Library Original Materials Reading Room.
Front cover and one sketch reproduced, with reference notes, in Sotheby's Fine Australian and European Paintings Sale Catalogue, Melbourne, 19 August 1996, lot 199. Also included in this lot were Sketchbook IV and loose drawings. For photographic copies of these, see PXB 162-63, Mitchell Library Pictures Collection.
In November 1980, the former owner lent this sketchbook (II) to the Library for copying. Black and white photoprints and 5 x 4" negatives are at Pic.Acc.4583
Other photographic copies of Martens' sketchbooks and loose drawings from the voyage are held in the Mitchell Library Pictures Collection at PXA 77-79 (Sketchbooks I and III and loose drawings). Sketchbooks I and III, like the remainder of the material described here, were from the Camden Park Collection. They were sold to Senor Armando Braun Menedez, Buenos Aires, and then to Cambridge University Library