• Title
  Interior of Burrangalong [Abercrombie] Cavern, ca.1843-1849 / painted by Conrad Martens
• Creator
  Conrad Martens, 1801-1878
• Call number
  DG 163
  Status: On display – Paintings from the Collection, Room 2, South Wall, no. 187
  
• Level of description
  fonds
• Date
  
  ca.1843-1849
• Type of material
  Graphic Materials, Paintings
• Reference code
  413016
• Physical Description
  1 painting - oil on canvas, in late nineteenth century gilded frame, glass fronted - 60.5 x 88.2 cm. incl. frame
  
• Copying Conditions
  Out of copyright: Creator died before 1955
  Please acknowledge:: Dixson Galleries, State Library of New South Wales
• General note
  
  Undated. Date approximated from the time of Martens' visit to Abercrombie Caves. Source: Conrad Martens: life & art / Elizabeth Ellis. Sydney: State Library of NSW Press, 1994
  Unsigned
  Conserved 1994
  Titled from Society for the Promotion of Fine Arts catalogue # 338, Sydney, 1849, in which the work was listed
  Previously titled "Wombeyan Caves", from former frame label
  The Abercrombie Caves are situated on the Bathurst-Crookwell Road between Trunkey Creek and Tuena, about fifty miles south of Bathurst. "Burrangalong" seems to be a name associated with the Caves in the first half of the nineteenth century. Source: Conrad Martens: life & art / Elizabeth Ellis. Sydney: State Library of NSW Press, 1994
• Subject
  Art, Colonial--Australia.
  Adult Males
  
• Topic
  interiors
  caves
  colonial art
  
• Place
  Abercrombie Caves (N.S.W.)
  
• Exhibited in
  
  Journeys through Landscapes - Conrad Martens Life & Art - State Library of New South Wales (21 November, 1994 - 3 July, 1995)
  Pride of place - State Library of New South Wales (September, 2004 - November, 2004)
  Paintings from the Collection - State Library of New South Wales (October, 2018 - )

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