• Title
  Bota Fogo, Rio de Janiero [i.e. Janeiro], [ca. 1833] / watercolour by Conrad Martens
• Creator
  Conrad Martens, 1801-1878
• Call number
  SSV*/Sp Coll/Martens/21
  
• Level of description
  fonds
• Date
  
  ca. 1833. Dated from the related pencil drawing
• Type of material
  Graphic Materials, Watercolours
• Reference code
  404638
• Issue Copy
  Digitised
• Physical Description
  Drawings - 1 watercolour and pencil with scraping-out - 19.5 x 29.3 cm
  
• Copying Conditions
  Out of copyright: Artist died before 1955
• General note
  
  Illustrated in The Beagle record: selections from the original pictorial records and written accounts of the voyage of H.M.S. Beagle / ed. Richard Darwin Keynes (1979), p. 52; also in Conrad Martens: life & art / Elizabeth Ellis (1994), p. 7.
  Listed in Conrad Martens Account book, 24 June 1835 'View Bota Fogo Rio Janiero [sic] 2-[pounds] Mr. J. [G.W.] Evans ... (ref. Dixson Library ZDL MS 142).
  Related pencil drawing: 'Botofogo Bay Rio Janiero. 15 July 1833', in Sketchbook III, f. 3, Cambridge University Library, UK, ADD.MS 7983.
  This work was sold as a pair with 'Funchal, Madeira', the artist's first sale in Sydney. They derive from sketches done on HMS Hyacinth. The purchaser, 'J. Evans' was actually George William Evans, former surveyor and artist tunred bookseller and stationer of the Colonnade, Bridge Street, Sydney from whom Martens rented a studio soon after his arrival in Sydney.
  Digital order no:a928972
• Signatures / Inscriptions
  
  Signed 'Conrad Martens' and inscribed with title lower right in pencil on reverse
• Topic
  Rio Janeiro
  
• Exhibited in
  
  Journeys through Landscapes - Conrad Martens Life & Art - State Library of New South Wales (21 November, 1994 - 3 July, 1995)
  O Rio de Janeiro na Rota Dos Mares Do Dul (Rio de Janeiro on the South Seas route) - Centro Cultural Correios, Rio de Janiero, Brazil (November, 2006 - January, 2007)
  Charles Darwin: voyages and ideas that shook the world - Australian National Maritime Museum (March, 2009 - August, 2009)

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