• Title
  [Ravenscott on the Brisbane River], 1853 / watercolour by Conrad Martens
• Creator
  Conrad Martens, 1801-1878
• Call number
  ZXV*/Sp Coll/Martens/3
  
• Level of description
  fonds
• Date
  
  1853
• Type of material
  Graphic Materials, Watercolours
• Reference code
  430478
• Physical Description
  Drawings - 1 watercolour - pencil (with bodycolour and gum arabic) drawing - 46 x 66.2 cm.
  
• ADMINISTRATIVE/ BIOGRAPHICAL HISTORY
  
  This property was initially owned and named by the Reverend Robert T. Creyke but had changed ownership to Henry Stuart Russell and renamed "Shafston" by the time the drawing was finished by Martens. -- Reference: Conrad Martens : life & art / Elizabeth Ellis. Sydney : State Library of New South Wales Press, 1994.
• Copying Conditions
  Out of copyright: Artist died before 1955<br>
• General note
  
  Former backing board was inscribed, "Ravenscott, Brisbane. R.T. Carter"
  Reproduced in Conrad Martens : life & art / Elizabeth Ellis. Sydney : State Library of New South Wales Press, 1994, p.174
  Provenance of item derived from a list of material that was deposited with the National Art Gallery (Art Gallery of N.S.W.), prior to the Mitchell Library's opening in 1910.
• Signatures / Inscriptions
  
  Signed and dated at lower right of image, "C. Martens 1853".
• Subject
  David Scott Mitchell Collection.
  
• Topic
  colonial art
  houses
  landscapes (views)
  river banks
  
• Exhibited in
  
  Conrad Martens Centenary Exhibition - S.H. Ervin Museum and Art Gallery (24 May - 23 July, 1978). Applies to: Reproduced in exhibition catalogue No.70

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