• Title
  Portfolio collection of views, mainly in New South Wales, volume 1, ca. 1847-1873 / drawn by Conrad Martens
• Creator
  Conrad Martens, 1801-1878
• Call number
  DGD 7
  
• Level of description
  fonds
• Date
  
  ca. 1847-1873
• Type of material
  Graphic Materials, Drawings, Watercolours
• Reference code
  825898
• Issue Copy
  Digitised
• Physical Description
  1 portfolio - 6 watercolours, 1 pencil and wash, 3 pencil and watercolour, and 2 wash drawings - 62 x 50 cm
  
• Scope and Content
  f.1 Mrs Macquarie’s Chair. Signed ‘C. Martens’ at lower right. Undated. Titled in Sir William Dixson’s [?] hand on back of mount
  f.2 The Spit Middle Harbour. Unsigned. Undated. Titled in Sir William Dixson’s [?] hand on back
  f.3 Lake Illawarra. Unsigned. Undated. Titled in Sir William Dixson’s [?] hand
  f.4 Glen Rock Darlinghurst Sydney. Signed, ‘C. Martens’ at lower left. Undated. Titled at lower right
  f.5 Descent into Lithgow Valley in the Blue Mountains N.S.Wales. Signed and dated ‘C. Martens 1873’ at lower right. Titled on back
  f.6 [Harbour scene]. Unsigned. Undated. Untitled
  f.7 [Landscape]. Unsigned. Undated. Untitled. Mss. notes on colours
  f.8 [Sydney Harbour from North Shore] painted for James Levick Esq. Unsigned. Undated. Untitled
  f.9 From St Leonards. Unsigned. Titled and dated, ‘Sept 1, 1847’. On back on mount in Sir William Dixson’s [?] hand reads, ‘Dawes Point from St. Leonards’
  f.10 [Romantic landscape]. Unsigned. Undated. Untitled. Titled from Sir Lionel Lindsay
  f.11 [Landscape]. Unsigned. Undated. Untitled
  f.12 Sketch of the Glebe. Unsigned. Undated. Titled at lower right
• Copying Conditions
  Out of copyright: Creator died before 1955
  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
• General note
  
  Image f.10 is reproduced in: Conrad Martens : the man and his art / by Lionel Lindsay.
• Subject
  Artists' preparatory studies.
  Art, Colonial--Australia.
  
• Topic
  landscapes (views)
  bush
  harbours
  mountains
  
• Place
  Sydney Harbour (N.S.W.)
  Lithgow (N.S.W.)
  Mrs Macquarie's Chair (Sydney, N.S.W.)
  Glenrock (Darling Point, N.S.W.)
  Glebe (N.S.W.)
  
• Exhibited in
  
  Journeys through Landscapes - Conrad Martens Life & Art - State Library of New South Wales (21 November, 1994 - 3 July, 1995)
• Open Rosetta viewer
  IE8651914

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