• Title
  [Sydney Cove from the North Shore] 1836 / watercolour by Conrad Martens
• Creator
  Conrad Martens, 1801-1878
• Call number
  DGD 8/f. 5
  
• Level of description
  item
• Date
  
  1836
• Type of material
  Graphic Materials, Watercolours
• Reference code
  404694
• Physical Description
  Drawings - 1 watercolour, with scraping-out - 32 x 47.8 cm
  
• Copying Conditions
  Out of copyright: Creator died before 1955
  Please acknowledge:: Dixson Galleries, State Library of New South Wales
• General note
  
  Exhibited at Conrad Martens Centenary Exhibition, S.H. Ervin Gallery, Sydney, 1978, cat. no. 19.
  Illustrated in Charles Darwin in Australia / F.W. and J.M. Nicholas (1989), p. 17; Conrad Martens: life & art / Elizabeth Ellis (1994), p. 110.
  Martens' Account book (Dixson Library DL MS 142) lists on 20 Feb. 1836 'Sydney Cove Col. Breton 6.6.0'.
  Related pencil drawing; 'Sydney from the North Shore Jany 8. 1836--', title and date lower right, 25.7 x 37 cm, inscribed along upper edge are positions of buildings, left to right "Bathing House R.[oman] Catholic Chapel Hyde Park Barracks Part of Council Chambers Government Stables Old Mill Church Macquarie Fort Sydney Barracks Government Warehouse", bequeathed by David Scott Mitchell, 1907 (PXC 295, f. 23)
  Col. Breton was Henry William Breton, an officer with the 4th or King's Own Regiment of Foot until 1835 and married to Elizabeth Maria, daughter of John Blaxland of Newington. He was also a magistrate at Parramatta and Goulburn in the 1830s.
  Another watercolour with the same title and price is listed in the Account book, 27 May 1836, for "Baxter Esq." This may be the work now in AGNSW entitled " Fort Macquarie, Bennelong Point, from the North Shore, 1836", 33 x 48.5 cm, presented by the Corry family, 1946. A third version, 1837, is in NRAG; a fourth is in NGV.
  Digital order no:a1762001
• Signatures / Inscriptions
  
  Signed and dated lower left 'C. Martens---1836". Inscribed on reverse by a nineteenth-century framer with mounting and framing dimensions and owner's name "Gen[era]l Breton 48 Rutland Gate [London]. Former Library card catalogue title 'Harbour scene showing Fort Macquarie'.
• Place
  Fort Macquarie (Sydney, N.S.W.)
  Sydney Cove (N.S.W.)
  Sydney Harbour (N.S.W.)
  
• Exhibited in
  
  Journeys through Landscapes - Conrad Martens Life & Art - State Library of New South Wales (21 November, 1994 - 3 July, 1995)
  Charles Darwin Down Under 1836 - State Library of New South Wales

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