• Title
  Sketchbook of views and botanical studies in the Illawarra district, 1835 / drawn by Conrad Martens
• Creator
  Conrad Martens, 1801-1878
• Call number
  PXC 389
  
• Level of description
  fonds
• Date
  
  1835-1835
• Type of material
  Graphic Materials, Drawings
• Reference code
  825863
• Issue Copy
  Digitised
• Physical Description
  1 sketchbook (30 leaves) - 25 pencil sketches - 12.5 x 19 cm
  
• Scope and Content
  f.1 At Illawarra. Unsigned. Titled and dated, ‘July 8-/35-‘. Noted ‘Arum’ at bottom left.
  f.2 Nymphs Grotto. Unsigned. Dated, ‘July 4/35’
  f.3 Belgenny, Camden. Unsigned. Titled and dated, ‘July 5/35’. Noted ‘Apple – Native Willow’ at top edge.
  f.4 Broughtons Pass. Unsigned. Titled and dated, ‘July 6-/35-‘. Mss. notes concerning colours and drawing technique on image and opposite on f.3a.
  f.5 At Illawarra. Unsigned. Titled and dated, ‘July 8-/35’. Mss. notes concerning colours and drawing technique on image.
  f.6 View at Illawarra, Tom Thumbs Lagoon. Unsigned. Titled and dated, ‘July 8/35’.
  f.7 The Arum, [at the?] Illawarra. Unsigned. Titled and dated, ‘July 10.1835’. Mss. notes concerning colours.
  f.8 Crimson or Lily, Illawarra. Unsigned. Undated. Titled. Mss. notes concerning colours.
  f.9 [Gang?] palms, ferns, Illawarra. Unsigned. Titled and dated, ‘July 10.35’. Mss. notes.
  f.10 Nettle tree & cabbage palm. Unsigned. Titled and dated, ‘July 11th/35’
  f.11 Fig tree at Illawarra. Unsigned. Titled and dated, ‘July 11/35’
  f.12 [Palm tree]. Unsigned. Undated. Untitled. Mss. notes.
  f.13 Cabbage Palms & Stedmania, Illawarra. Unsigned. Titled and dated, ‘July 12’.
  f.14 Parra, Bara Creek. Unsigned. Titled and dated, ‘July 13/35’. Mss. notes.
  f.15 Nettle Tree. Unsigned. Titled and dated, ‘July 14, 35’.
  f.16 [Illawarra landscape]. Unsigned. Undated. Untitled.
  f.17 Fern tree, Illawarra. Unsigned. Titled and dated, ‘July 16/35’.
  f.18 [Lilies]. Unsigned. Undated. Untitled. Mss. notes.
  f.19 Wyoming, Brisbane Water. Unsigned. Titled and dated, ‘Sep. 10/35’. Mss. notes.
  f.20 Wyoming. Unsigned. Titled and dated, ‘Sep. 10/35’. Mss. notes.
  f.21 Wyoming. Unsigned. Titled and dated, ‘Sep. 12/35’. Mss. notes.
  f.22 Wyoming. Unsigned. Titled and dated, ‘Sep. 12/35’. Mss. notes.
  f.23 Pittwater. Unsigned. Titled and dated, ‘Sep. 13/35’.
  f.24 [Aborigine]. Unsigned. Undated. Untitled.
  f.25-f.29 Blank
  f.30 Crimson rock lily. Unsigned. Undated. Titled.
• Copying Conditions
  Out of copyright: Artist died before 1955
  Please acknowledge:: Mitchell 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
  
  ‘Sketchbook of Conrad Martens’ – Front end paper
  Bookseller’s label: ‘Ackermann & Co., Repository of Arts, 96, Strand, London’ – Front end paper
  Digital order no:Album ID : 1261098
• Subject
  Martens, Conrad, 1801-1878--Notebooks, sketchbooks, etc.
  David Scott Mitchell Collection.
  Art, Colonial--Australia.
  Botany--New South Wales.
  
• Topic
  landscapes (views)
  Aboriginal peoples (Australians)
  bush
  plants
  creeks
  cabbage tree palms
  lilies
  arum lilies
  
• Place
  Illawarra (N.S.W.)
  Camden (N.S.W.)
  Broughtons Pass (N.S.W.)
  Tom Thumbs Lagoon
  Brisbane Water (N.S.W.)
  Wyoming (N.S.W.)
  Belgenny Farm (Camden Park Estate, N.S.W.)
  
• Exhibited in
  
  Australian Colonial Art - State Library of New South Wales (31 July - 27 November, 2000)
• Open Rosetta viewer
  IE9721062

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