• Title
  Pencil sketches in England, and studies of birds, horses and ships, ca. 1827-1832 / drawn by Conrad Martens
• Creator
  Conrad Martens, 1801-1878
• Call number
  PXC 387
  
• Level of description
  fonds
• Date
  
  ca. 1827-1832
• Type of material
  Graphic Materials, Drawings, Watercolours
• Reference code
  825849
• Issue Copy
  Digitised
• Physical Description
  2 sketchbooks (46 leaves) - 41 pencil sketches, 1 watercolour, 9 pencil and wash sketches - 11.2 x 18 cm and 8 x 13 cm
  
• Scope and Content
  VOLUME 1:
  
  f.1-f.1a [Sketches of ships]. Unsigned. Undated. Untitled.
  f.2 [Compass readings]. Unsigned. Undated. Untitled.
  f.2a [Sketches of ducks, birds with mss. notes]. Unsigned.
  Undated. Untitled.
  f.3 Blank
  f.4 [Sketches of horses]. Unsigned. Undated. Untitled.
  f.4a-f.5a [Sketches of ships]. Unsigned. Undated. Untitled.
  f.6a [Sketches of ships]. Unsigned. Undated. Untitled.
  f.7a [Sketch of shoreline]. Unsigned. Undated. Untitled.
  f.8a The Ernie. Unsigned. Titled and dated ‘July 28‘
  f.9 [Sketches of ships]. Unsigned. Undated. Untitled.
  f.9a View from Stonehouse Bridge. Unsigned. Titled and
  dated ‘July 25’.
  f.10a Bush and laneway scene. Unsigned. Titled and date
  indecipherable.
  End paper. [Sketch of bush and mss notes]. Unsigned. Undated.
  Untitled.
  
  Loose sheets
  f.11 [Landscape]. Unsigned. Undated. Untitled.
  f.12-f.12a [Sketches of houses]. Unsigned. Undated. Untitled.
  f.13-f.13a [Sketches of ships]. Unsigned. Undated. Untitled.
  f.14 Landscape sketch with mss notes]. Unsigned. Undated.
  Untitled.
  f.15 Air Street. Unsigned. Titled and dated ‘July 5, 1832’.
  
  VOLUME 2:
  
  f.1-f.1a mss. notes on drawing technique.
  f.2 Northern Hay. Unsigned. Titled and dated ‘Augst. 19, 1831’.
  f.2a mss. notes on drawing technique.
  f.3 Mr. Granger’s garden, Exeter. Unsigned. Undated. Titled at
  bottom left.
  f.3a mss. notes on drawing technique.
  f.4 [Landscape]. Unsigned. Undated. Untitled.
  f.4a mss. notes on drawing technique.
  f.5 [Shoreline]. Unsigned. Undated. Untitled.
  f.6 [Landscape with village and church]. Unsigned. Undated.
  Untitled.
  f.7 [Landscape]. Unsigned. Undated. Untitled.
  f.7a [Landscape]. Unsigned. Undated. Untitled.
  f.8a [Cottage]. Landscape. Unsigned. Undated. Untitled.
  f.9-f.10 [Boats]. Landscape. Unsigned. Undated. Untitled.
  f.11 [Windows in house]. Unsigned. Undated. Untitled.
  f.12 [Landscape]. Unsigned. Undated. Untitled.
  f.12a-14a [Ships]. Unsigned. Undated. Untitled.
  f.15 [Wooden structure on shoreline]. Unsigned. Undated.
  Untitled.
  f.15a [Shoreline]. Unsigned. Undated. Untitled.
  f.16a [Coastal landscape with mss notes]. Unsigned. Undated.
  Untitled.
  f.17a [Coastal scene with huts]. Unsigned. Undated. Untitled.
  f.18a [Coastal scene]. Unsigned. Undated. Untitled.
  f.19-f19a [Ships]. Unsigned. Undated. Untitled.
  f.20a [Sea and clouds]. Unsigned. Undated. Untitled.
  f.21 mss. notes on drawing technique.
  f.21a [Shoreline]. Unsigned. Undated. Untitled.
  f.22 [Ship]. Unsigned. Undated. Untitled.
  f.22a mss. notes.
  
  Loose sheets
  f.23 Old College Gateway, Maidstone. Unsigned. Titled and
  dated ‘3 Augst, 1827’.
  f.24 [Stone gateway]. Unsigned. Undated. Untitled.
  f.25 Allington Castle, Kent. Unsigned. Undated. Titled at upper
  right.
  f.26 Gargoyle on Chideock Church. Unsigned. Undated. Titled
  beneath image.
  f.27 Chigwell Row, Essex. Unsigned. Titled and dated, ‘June 24,
  1827’.
  f.28 Chingford Church, Essex. Unsigned. Undated. Titled upper
  right.
  f.29 Chingford Church. Signed ‘C M’. Titled and dated ‘June 25,
  1827’.
  f.30 Epping Forest. Unsigned. Titled and dated ‘June 20’.
  f.31 Twickenham. Unsigned. Titled and dated ‘July 27, 1827’.
• Published Information
  Conrad Martens : life & art / Elizabeth Ellis. Sydney : State Library of New South Wales Press, 1994.
• Description source
  
  SLNSW Mitchell Library Pictures Card Catalogue
• General note
  
  Digital order no:Album ID : 1261095
• Subject
  David Scott Mitchell Collection.
  Martens, Conrad, 1801-1878--Notebooks, sketchbooks, etc.
  
• Topic
  landscapes (views)
  ships
  boats
  ducks
  bridges
  churches
  country scenes
  villages (overseas)
  
• Place
  Devon (England)
  Dorset (England)
  Allington Castle (Maidstone, Kent)
  Stonehouse Bridge (Devon, England)
  Exeter (England)
  Old College Gateway (Maidstone, England)
  Chideock (England)
  Chigwell (England)
  Chingford (London, England)
  
• Open Rosetta viewer
  IE16172172

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