• Title
  [Sketchbook of pencil views], 1834-1836 / by Conrad Martens
• Creator
  Conrad Martens, 1801-1878
• Call number
  PXC 294
  
• Level of description
  fonds
• Date
  
  1834-1836
• Type of material
  Graphic Materials, Drawings
• Reference code
  457306
• Issue Copy
  Digitised
• Physical Description
  1 album (30 pencil drawings) - 26.5 x 38 cm.
  
• Scope and Content
  1. Valparaiso from the anchorage. Augst.2./34
  3. Valparaiso from the Santiago Road. Nov. 18/34
  5. View at Tahiti with the Island of Moorea. Feb. 9/35
  7. Basaltic columns and waterfall Tahiti. Feby 1835
  9. View at Valparaiso, part of the Almondral with the English and Spanish cemeteries. Nov 12/34. Pencil note beneath title `Road to Santiago'
  11. Part of Papieti Harbour. Island of Tahiti. Feby 27, 1835
  13. Valley of Bunaavia, Tahiti. Feby 24/35
  15. View at Papara, Island of Tahiti. Feby 24/35
  17. Distant view of Point Venus, Tahiti. Feby 1835
  19. Orohena the highest mountain in Tahiti. Feby 1835
  21. Bridge St. Sydney. Sketched from Mr. (or W.) Evans' house, Dec 1835. Pencil note in Library Officer's hand `oil painting of this sketch is in the possession of Wm. Dixson' located at DG 66
  23. Sydney from North Shore. Jany 8, 1836. Pencil notes from left to right at top of sketch. `Bathing house, R.Catholic Chapel, Hyde Park Barracks, Part of Council Chambers, Government Stables, Old Mill, Church, Macquarie Fort, Sydney Barracks, Government warehouses'
  25. Sydney. Feby 18, 36
  27. View Sydney Cove from Bunkers Hill. July 2/36
  29. Entrance to the Beagle Channel. Fuegians. A family group. Feb, 1834
  31. Rarutoa - bearing N [and] Entrance to the Bay of Islands, New Zealand. April 2, 1835. Two pencil sketches on one sheet, upper sketch is dated March 16/35
  35. Kororarika, Bay of Islands. Apr. 16. Pencil notes at top of view `Missionary Settlement' and `Waitonga River'
  37. View in the Bay of Islands. April 5/35
  39. Kororarika Bay of Islands. April 7
  41. Native settlement in the Bay of Islands, New Zealand. April 4/35
  43. Tetore, Bay of Islands. April 8, 1835. Pencil note `By Earle' in unknown hand on page on which sketch is mounted
  45. Matavai Chapel, Tahiti. Jany 15. Pencil note at left of the sketch `Aito trees'
  47. Chapel at Bunaauia [sic] Tahiti. Feby 25/35
  49. Valley of Bunaauia [sic] Tahiti
  51. Tara trees, Tahiti
  53. Tei trees and cottage. Point Venus, Tahiti. Jany 16/35
  55. Vi tree with the house of Revd. W. Wilson. Point Venus. Jany 15/35
  57. Island of Moorea bearing N.W. taken from on board the `Black Warrior'. March 4, 1835
  59. Branch of breadfruit tree [and] Tara. Two sketches on one sheet
  Endpaper. Native dwelling
• Copying Conditions
  Out of copyright: Artist died before 1955.
• General note
  
  No signature on works. Titles are inscribed and dated at the top or bottom of pencil drawings
  Numbering of contents refers only to the leaves in the album containing pencil drawings
  Page no. 33 remains blank with corner cut
  Copy Print : PXB 5
  Digital order no:Album ID : 1261062
• Signatures / Inscriptions
  
  `D.S. Mitchell' -- frontispiece
• Creator/Author/Artist
  Earle, Augustus, 1793-1838
  
• Subject
  Art, Colonial--Australia.
  David Scott Mitchell Collection.
  
• Topic
  breadfruit
  bridges
  buildings, structures & establishments
  burial grounds
  chapels
  horses
  huts
  mountains
  palm trees
  settlements
  trees
  warehouses
  
• Place
  Bridge Street (Sydney, N.S.W.)
  Fort Macquarie (Sydney, N.S.W.)
  Hyde Park Barracks (Sydney, N.S.W.)
  Islands, Bay of (N.Z.)
  New Zealand
  Sydney Cove (N.S.W.)
  Sydney (N.S.W.)
  Tahiti (French Polynesia : Island).
  Valparaíso (Chile)
  
• Exhibited in
  
  Australian Colonial Art - State Library of New South Wales (31 July - 27 November, 2000)
  The legacy of Charles Darwin in Australia - Ian Potter Museum of Art. Applies to: f.1
• Open Rosetta viewer
  IE16345405

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