• Title
  [New Government House, 1841] / painted by C. Martens
• Creator
  Conrad Martens, 1801-1878
• Call number
  DG 55
  Status: On display – Paintings from the Collection, Room 1, West Wall, no. 1
  
• Level of description
  fonds
• Date
  
  1841
• Type of material
  Graphic Materials, Paintings
• Reference code
  825839
• Issue Copy
  Digitised
• Physical Description
  1 painting - oil on canvas - 47.5 x 66.5 cm. in contemporary gilded frame 62.5 x 81 cm.
  
• Copying Conditions
  Out of copyright: Creator died before 1955
  Please acknowledge:: Dixson Galleries, State Library of New South Wales
• Published Information
  Conrad Martens: life and art / Elizabeth Ellis¶Sydney : State Library of New South Wales Press, 1994
• Variant title
  
  Previously titled `Government House’ from frame label.
  
  Later paper label inscribed in ink on reverse in another hand `Sydney 1. View of the newly built Government House 2. View of the Stables. A pair’. Title from Conrad Martens: life and art / Elizabeth Ellis, 1994
• General note
  
  Later paper label inscribed in ink on reverse in another hand `Sydney 1. View of the newly built Government House 2. View of the Stables. A pair’
  Title and information from Conrad Martens: life and art / Elizabeth Ellis, 1994, pg. 159
  
  Account book, 28 Oct. 1841 `New Government House The Governor Sir George Gipps £15.15.0’.
  
  One of six oils, 1841-42 painted as private commissions for Sir George Gipps, Governor of NSW (1835-45). Notebook 1, DLMS 142, ff. 183-4 lists Gipps’ commissions separately in addition to the main chronological sequence.
  
  Related drawings: A pencil sketch titled `New Government House Sep. 4th 1841’, title and date lower left in original sketchbook, bequeathed by David Scott Mitchell, 1907 PXC., f.25
  Digital order no:a928833
• Conservation note
  
  Conservation funded by Mr James Fairfax, AO 1994.
  
  Exhibited at Government House (Sydney), August 1997 to February 1998
• Subject
  Art, Colonial--Australia.
  
• Topic
  official residences
  oil paintings
  
• Place
  Government House (Sydney, N.S.W.)
  
• Exhibited in
  
  Journeys through Landscapes - Conrad Martens Life & Art - State Library of New South Wales (21 November, 1994 - 3 July, 1995)
  Our painted past : paintings from the Dixson Galleries collection - State Library of New South Wales (March, 1990 - August, 1990)
  Possessed : an exhibition of treasures - State Library of New South Wales (March, 1997 - June, 1997)
  Conrad Martens Centenary Exhibition - S.H. Ervin Museum and Art Gallery (May, 1978 - July, 1978)
  The Picture Gallery 1 - State Library of New South Wales (February, 1999 - November, 1999)
  Paintings from the Collection - State Library of New South Wales (October, 2018 - )
• Open Rosetta viewer
  IE9115259

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