• Title
  Portfolio collection of views, mainly in New South Wales, volume 2, ca. 1836 / drawn by Conrad Martens
• Creator
  Conrad Martens, 1801-1878
• Call number
  DGD 8
  
• Level of description
  fonds
• Date
  
  ca. 1836
• Type of material
  Graphic Materials, Drawings, Watercolours
• Reference code
  825899
• Issue Copy
  Digitised
• Physical Description
  1 portfolio - 9 watercolours, 1 pencil and wash, 1 pencil and watercolour, and 1 sepia and blue wash drawing - 62 x 50 cm
  
• Scope and Content
  f.1 [Landscape]. Unsigned. Undated. Untitled
  f.2 [Harbourside cottage]. Unsigned. Undated. Untitled
  f.3 [Scene, possibly Darling Harbour]. Unsigned. Undated. Untitled
  f.4 'Mnt. Carmel' Church, Surry Hills. Unsigned. Undated. Titled at lower right
  f.5 [Harbour scene showing Fort Macquarie]. Signed and dated, ‘C. Martens - 1836‘ at lower right. Untitled
  f.6 [Beach scene]. Unsigned. Undated. Untitled. Note on back, 'Part of Rose Bay'
  f.7 [Landscape]. Unsigned. Undated. Untitled
  f.8 Copy of Mercury and Argus by Turner. Unsigned. Undated. Titled on back in Sir William Dixson’s [?] hand. The title is followed by a note in the same hand reading, ‘See Fifty Years of Art’
  f.9 [Landscape]. Unsigned. Undated. Untitled
  f.10 Camden Haven & N. Brothers Mntn. Unsigned. Undated. Titled on back in unknown hand. There is a further title reading ‘Balmoral Beach Mid H’ in Sir William Dixson’s [?] hand on mount at lower right. The mountain in the background indicates that the sketch is probably of Camden Haven
  f.11 [High Tor, Dartmoor]. Unsigned. Undated. Untitled
  f.12 [Landscape]. Unsigned. Undated. Untitled
• Copying Conditions
  Out of copyright: Creator died before 1955
  Please acknowledge:: Dixson Library, State Library of New South Wales
• Published Information
  Conrad Martens : life & art / Elizabeth Ellis. Sydney : State Library of New South Wales Press, 1994.
• Description source
  
  SLNSW Mitchell Library Pictures Card Catalogue
• General note
  
  Image ff., 2,11 is reproduced in: Conrad Martens : the man and his art / by Lionel Lindsay.
• Attributions / conjectures
  
  PXn736 referenced for f.11.
• Subject
  Artists' preparatory studies.
  Art, Colonial--Australia.
  
• Topic
  landscapes (views)
  bush
  harbours
  mountains
  houses
  
• Place
  Sydney Harbour (N.S.W.)
  Fort Macquarie (Sydney, N.S.W.)
  Devon (England)
  Camden Haven (N.S.W.)
  
• Exhibited in
  
  Journeys through Landscapes - Conrad Martens Life & Art - State Library of New South Wales (21 November, 1994 - 3 July, 1995)
• Open Rosetta viewer
  IE8652315

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