• Title
  View Harbour & [Governor Bourke's] Statue, 1842 / oil painting by Conrad Martens
• Creator
  Conrad Martens, 1801-1878
• Call number
  ML 99
  Status: On display – Paintings from the Collection, Room 2, West Wall, no. 120
  
• Level of description
  fonds
• Date
  
  1842
• Type of material
  Graphic Materials, Paintings
• Reference code
  404944
• Issue Copy
  Copy print : ML 99
  
• Physical Description
  1 painting - oil - 46 x 65.5 cm
  
• Collection history
  Presented to the National Art Gallery, Sydney, by Sir Thomas Lane Devitt 1891
• Scope and Content
  Bourkes State was executed by Edward Baily R.A. (1788-1867) and unveiled by Governor's successor, Sir George Gipps, on 11 April 1842. It was moved a short distance to the present site outside the Mitchell Library Building in 1926 after the erection of the Shakespeare Memorial nearby.
  
  Reference:
  Conrad Martens : life and art / Elizabeth Ellis. Sydney : State Library of NSW, 1994, p. 161
• Copying Conditions
  Out of copyright: Artist died before 1955<br>
  Please acknowledge:: Mitchell Library, State Library of New South Wales
• Description source
  
  Title taken from Conrad Martens' Account Book (now in the Dixson Library) in which he listed all his sales. This painting was listed on 27 June 1842 as "View Harbour & Statue Lewis [erased, and replaced with] P.W. Flower Esq."
• General note
  
  Copy Print : ML 99 available in the Mitchell Library Reading Room
  Digital order no:62708
• Name
  Bourke, Richard, Sir, 1777-1855
  
• Subject
  Art, Colonial--Australia.
  
• Topic
  colonial art
  harbours
  statues
  
• Place
  Sydney Harbour (N.S.W.)
  
• Exhibited in
  
  Line of Sight: 19th century Australian landscape paintings - State Library of New South Wales (10 March - 27 April, 1997)
  The Picture Gallery 1 - State Library of New South Wales (February, 1999 - November, 1999)
  Conrad Martens Centenary Exhibition - S.H. Ervin Museum and Art Gallery (May, 1978 - July, 1978)
  Paintings from the Collection - State Library of New South Wales (October, 2018 - )
• Open Rosetta viewer
  IE3143388

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