• Title
  Portfolio of views of Sydney and New South Wales / Conrad Martens
• Creator
  Conrad Martens, 1801-1878
• Call number
  DG*D 18
  
• Level of description
  fonds
• Date
  
  probably 1836-1876
• Type of material
  Graphic Materials, Watercolours
• Reference code
  825895
• Issue Copy
  Digitised
• Physical Description
  1 portfolio (37 drawings) - pencil, pencil and wash, and watercolour - 40.0 x 49.5 cm
  
• Scope and Content
  f.1 From Randwick Cemetery. Painted for John Lamb Esq. Unsigned. Titled and dated, ‘April 30th. 1866’.
  f.2 Northhead & Entrance to Port Jackson. Signed and dated in lower right corner, ‘C Martens May 19th 1868’. Added geographical notes on bottom of image.
  f.3 Rylie Estate. Unsigned. Titled and dated, ‘1836’.
  f.4 Sketch from Gore’s farm. Unsigned. Titled and dated, ‘Feb 5th/44-‘.
  f.5 North end of Cavern looking out. Unsigned. Titled and dated, ‘May 25th/43’.
  f.6 View of South entrance May 23 1843, Burrangalong Caves on the Abercrombie River. Unsigned. Titled and dated.
  f.7 Gallery and Grand archway Southern End. Unsigned. Titled and dated, ‘May 24th/43’.
  f.8 View from the gallery South end. Unsigned. Titled and dated, ‘May 23./43-‘
  f.9 Burrangalong Cavern on the ‘Abercrombie’. Unsigned. Titled and dated, ‘May 21/43’
  f.10 North Entrance, Burrangalong Cavern or the Abercrombie Cave. Unsigned. Titled and dated, ‘May 18th 1843’.
  f.11 Sydney from the North Shore. Unsigned. Untitled and dated, Sept. 20th 1852. Mss. notes.
  f.12 Hyde Park, Sydney. Unsigned. Titled and dated, ‘Feby 28.46’.
  f.13 Sydney from the North Shore. Unsigned. Untitled and dated, ‘Sept. 21st 1852’.
  f.14 View from Mr. Carr’s, April 27th 1852, Waverton. Unsigned. Titled and dated. On back are mss. notes in three different hands.
  f.15 Middle Harbour. Unsigned. Titled and dated, ‘June 4, 1866’. Note: ‘Mr Webb’. Image similar to f.2.
  f.16 Cockattoo [sic] Island – From St. Leonards. Unsigned. Titled and dated, ‘Oct.3.1855-‘
  f.17 Double Bay. Unsigned. Titled and dated, ‘Decr.22/1867’. Note at bottom of image ‘Green Oaks’.
  f.18 View from Mrs Carr’s house St. Leonards. Unsigned. Titled and dated, ‘May 19th 1854’.
  f.19 From Greenoaks – T.S. Mort Esq. Unsigned. Titled and dated, probably ‘Jan 23. 1877'
  f.20 The Rangers. Unsigned. Titled and dated, probably ‘Dec. 1857'
  f.21 Quakers Hat, Middle Harbour. Unsigned. Titled and dated, ‘Nov 23 1857’.
  f.22 Island of Amsterdam. Unsigned. Undated. Titled. Note: probably ‘ferren’
  f.23 From South Kurrajong Seat of G. Bowen. Unsigned. Titled and dated, ‘Nov 10 1876’. Mss note ‘Richmond, White Sand River’.
  f.24 Mount Toman. Unsigned. Titled and dated, ‘Nov. 27’.
  f.25 Port Jackson from above Tivoli painted for Chas. Keane Esq. Unsigned. Titled and dated, ‘1864’. Mss. geographical notes.
  f.26 Sydney from North Shore. Unsigned. Titled and dated, ‘Jany. 8th 1863’.
  f.27 Lithgow’s Tree. Unsigned. Titled and dated, ‘28th Augt. 1862’. Added note in lower right corner: ‘The Mammoth Gum Tree Lithgow Estate, St. Leonards’.
  f.28 From R. Campbell’s house. Unsigned. Titled and dated, ‘Jan 29th 1862’.
  f.29 From the Cottage Mt Tomah. Unsigned. Titled and dated, ‘Nov. 25th. 1876’.
  f.30 View from The Rangers S.H. Russel Esq. Unsigned. Undated. Titled.
  f.31 Sketch of trees and cliff. Unsigned. Untitled and dated, probably ‘July 3 1857’.
  f.32 The Gap, painted for Rob. Campbell. Unsigned. Untitled. Undated. Note on back: ‘Painted for Rob. Campbell Esq’.
  f.33 On the road to Middle Head. Unsigned. Undated and titled on back; also on back pencil note: ‘Mrs Scott’. Believed not to be done by Martens.
  f.34 St. Marks Church Dg. Point. Unsigned. Undated. Titled. Mss notes concerning colours.
  f.35 The Cookbundoon River County Argyle. Signed ‘C Martens’. Undated. Titled at lower left.
  f.36 From above the cottage Mt Tomah. Unsigned. Titled and dated, ‘1876’. Mss note: probably ‘Wheeny Creek’.
  f.37 Mount King George From Yellow Rock. Unsigned. Titled and dated, ‘1876’.
• Copying Conditions
  Out of copyright:
  Please acknowledge:: Dixson Galleries, State Library of New South Wales
• 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
  Content notes included.
• Variant title
  
  f.11, f.13, f.31, f.32: Title devised by cataloguer.
• General note
  
  Images f.2 (almost identical with The North Head, Sydney from Middle Harbour (June 4, 1866), f.11 and f.15 are reproduced in: Conrad Martens : the man and his art / by Lionel Lindsay, Q 759.29/M377/1A3
• Subject
  Artists' preparatory studies.
  Art, Colonial--Australia.
  
• Place
  Sydney Harbour (N.S.W.)
  Sydney (N.S.W.)
  Sydney Heads (N.S.W.)
  Abercrombie Caves (N.S.W.)
  The Rangers (Mosman, N.S.W.)
  Amsterdam Island
  Tomah, Mount (N.S.W.)
  Gap, The (N.S.W.)
  St. Mark's Church (Darling Point, N.S.W.)
  
• Exhibited in
  
  Journeys through Landscapes - Conrad Martens Life & Art - State Library of New South Wales (21 November, 1994 - 3 July, 1995). Applies to: f.3; f.6; f.7
• Open Rosetta viewer
  IE4562980

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