• Title
  [Sydney from near Bellevue Hill, 1858] / by Conrad Martens
• Creator
  Conrad Martens, 1801-1878
• Call number
  XV*/Sp Coll/Martens/2
  
• Level of description
  fonds
• Date
  
  1858
• Type of material
  Graphic Materials, Watercolours
• Reference code
  457240
• Issue Copy
  Digitised
• Physical Description
  Drawings - 1 watercolour and pencil with bodycolour and gum arabic - 46 x 66 cm.
  
• Scope and Content
  `Fort Denison is shown as complete, thus dating the picture after early 1857, see Kerr, Fort Denison, pp.27-9. The view is from the lower slopes of Bellevue Hill, with Carthona on the left and Lindsay to its right. Garden Island is above Darling Point and Clark Island centre right'
• Copying Conditions
  Out of copyright: Artist died before 1955
  Please acknowledge:: Mitchell Library, State Library of New South Wales
• Variant title
  
  Sydney Harbour from Point Piper
• General note
  
  No title or date on work. Title and information from Conrad Martens: life and art / Elizabeth Ellis, 1994, p.178
  Library catalogue title: Sydney from Point Piper from former frame label, date given as 1866 (no trace of date on work or corresponding entry for 1866 in Account book)
  Account book, 3 Feb. 1858 `Sydney from near Bellevue? P.Leslie Esq, 21.0.0 pds'
• Signatures / Inscriptions
  
  Signature in lower left hand corner
• Name
  Leslie, Patrick, 1815-1881
  
• Subject
  Art, Colonial--Australia.
  David Scott Mitchell Collection.
  
• Topic
  houses
  landscapes (views)
  people
  
• Place
  Bellevue Hill (N.S.W.)
  Fort Denison (Sydney, N.S.W.)
  Sydney Harbour (N.S.W.)
  
• Exhibited in
  
  The most useful Art: Architecture in Australia, 1788-1985 - State Library of New South Wales (6 August, 1985 - 2 March, 1986)
• Open Rosetta viewer
  IE8815267

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