• Title
  [View of Edinglassie] 1835 / watercolour by Conrad Martens
• Creator
  Conrad Martens, 1801-1878
• Call number
  DL Pf 138
  
• Level of description
  fonds
• Date
  
  1835
• Type of material
  Graphic Materials, Watercolours
• Reference code
  404680
• Issue Copy
  Digitised
• Physical Description
  Drawings - 1 watercolour and pencil, with scraping-out
  
• Copying Conditions
  Out of copyright: Creator died before 1955
  Please acknowledge:: Dixson Library, State Library of New South Wales
• Variant title
  
  Former title: 'Edinglassie seat of Chief Justice Forbes' from old frame label
• General note
  
  Martens' Account book (Dixson Library ref. ZDL MS 142) lists on 4 Nov. 1835 'View of Edinglassie Judge Forbes 6.6.0'.
  
  In the early 1830s, the first Chief Justice of New South Wales, Sir Francis Forbes, owned the only estate west of the Nepean River, at Emu Plains. Edinglassie (or Edenglassie) was at the southern end of the Plains, upstream from the prison farm. Forbes used the property as a country retreat rather than a working farm. His almost circular-shaped house was built between the River and Cox's Road, just before the ascent to the Mountains. It was demolished in 1900. Martens visited Emu Plains on the way to the Blue Mountains during his first weeks in New South Wales in May 1835. His second trip to the district was in Oct. 1835, when he obtained commissions from James and George Macleay of Brownlow Hill, Sir John Jamison of Regentville and this one from Sir Francis Forbes. "View of Edinglassie" seems to be his only painting for Forbes, who left Sydney for England in April 1836 and retired in July 1837. He returned to Sydney and died at Newtown in 1841.
  
  Transferred from 249P to DL 26, June 1967
  Transferred from DL 26 to DL Pf 138
• Signatures / Inscriptions
  
  Signed and dated lower right 'C. Martens 1835'
• Subject
  Art, Colonial--New South Wales.
  Forbes, Francis, Sir, 1784-1841.
  
• Topic
  houses
  
• Place
  Edinglassie (near Penrith, N.S.W.)
  
• Exhibited in
  
  Conrad Martens Centenary Exhibition - S.H. Ervin Museum and Art Gallery (24 May - 23 July, 1978). Applies to: Cat. no. 15
  Painted panorama 1800-1870: paintings from the Mitchell and Dixson collections of the State Library of New South Wales - Blaxland Gallery (November 1985 - November 1985)
• Open Rosetta viewer
  IE8795546

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