• Title
  [North Brisbane from Kangaroo Point], 1852 / by Conrad Martens
• Creator
  Conrad Martens, 1801-1878
• Call number
  ML 94
  
• Level of description
  fonds
• Date
  
  1852
• Type of material
  Graphic Materials, Drawings
• Reference code
  430482
• Issue Copy
  Digitised
• Physical Description
  1 drawing - watercolour and pencil, with bodycolour and gum arabic - 45.7 x 65.3 cm.
  
• Scope and Content
  The view includes the ferry stop at Kangaroo Point and looks across the Brisbane River to the original Customs House building, erected in 1849-1850.
• Access Conditions
  
  Access via appointment
• Copying Conditions
  Out of copyright: Artist died before 1955
  Please acknowledge:: Mitchell Library, State Library of New South Wales
• General note
  
  Reproduced in:
  Conrad Martens: the man and his art / L. Lindsay. Sydney: Angus & Robertson, 1920, (plate 24)
  Conrad Martens : life & art / Elizabeth Ellis. Sydney : State Library of New South Wales Press, 1994, p.172
  Conrad Martens in early Queensland : the frontier travels of a colonial artist / J. Steele, St. Lucia: University of Queensland Press, 1978, (plate 2)
  National Bank of Australia Calendar, 1960 (ML SV4 1852-1886)
  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 1852".
  Library catalogue title, "Brisbane" from frame label.
• Subject
  David Scott Mitchell Collection.
  
• Topic
  colonial art
  landscapes (views)
  river banks
  
• Place
  Brisbane (Qld.)
  
• Exhibited in
  
  Adelaide Festival of Arts (2nd : 1962) - Adelaide Festival of Arts (17 March - 31 March, 1962)
  Antipodean vision : Australian painting, colonial, impressionist, contemporary - Selected by the Commonwealth Art Advisory Board for showing at the Tate Gallery and the National Gallery in Ottawa, with two pre-view showings in Australia (circa 1962)
  Journeys through Landscapes - Conrad Martens Life & Art - State Library of New South Wales (November 1994 - July 1995). Applies to: No.159
  Northern Journey : Conrad Martens in early Queensland - Queensland Art Gallery (August 2001 - October 2001)

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