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825830
  • Title
    [Sydney from North Shore] / C. Martens
  • Creator
  • Call number
    DG 216
  • Level of description
    fonds
  • Date

    1840
  • Type of material
  • Reference code
    825830
  • Physical Description
    1 painting - oil on canvas - 47.0 x 65.8 cm in contemporary gilded frame 66.5 x 86.0 cm
  • Access Conditions

    Access via appointment
  • Copying Conditions
    Out of copyright:
    Please acknowledge:: Dixson Galleries, State Library of New South Wales
  • Variant title

    Previously titled 'Sydney and Botany Bay from North Shore' from former frame label
  • General note

    “This may be the painting for 'W.[Thomas?] Icely’ as colour tones are very like 'Sydney from Sandy Bay, 1840’ DL 23 purchased by Icely a few weeks before; the two may have been intended as a pair”.

    “Two works with similar titles are listed in 1842: 'Sydney from N.Shore J.Brown [erased replaced with] sold to J.Campbell £15.15.0', probably the oil illustrated in Deutscher Fine Art, Melbourne Catalogue Nov. 1988, no. 5; the other is Sydney from St. Leonards Novr. 1841', DG 62”

    Related Account book entries, 1840, all 15 guineas: 8 Feb. 'View Sydney fr. N[orth] Shore W.[Thoas?]Icely Esq'; 17 June `Sydney from N.Shore Egleston Esq.'; 2 Sept. 'Sydney from N.Shore A.McGaa Esq’; 9 Nov. 'Sydney from N.Shore John Campbell [erased replaced with] Edwards Esq.

    Reference: Conrad Martens: life and art / Elizabeth Ellis, 1994, p. 156
  • Signatures / Inscriptions

    Signed and dated lower right 'C. Martens, Sydney 1840'
  • Subject
  • Topic
  • Place
  • Exhibited in

    Painted panorama 1800-1870: paintings from the Mitchell and Dixson collections of the State Library of New South Wales - Blaxland Gallery (1 November - 30 November, 1985)
    Journeys through Landscapes - Conrad Martens Life & Art - State Library of New South Wales (November, 1994 - July, 1995)
    Conrad Martens Centenary Exhibition - S.H. Ervin Museum and Art Gallery (May, 1978 - July, 1978)
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