• Title
  [View of Sydney Harbour from above Tivoli], 1864 / drawn by C. Martens
• Creator
  Conrad Martens, 1801-1878
• Call number
  DL Pg 2
  
• Level of description
  fonds
• Date
  
  1864
• Type of material
  Graphic Materials, Watercolours
• Reference code
  825923
• Issue Copy
  Digitised
• Physical Description
  1 watercolour - pencil with remains of bodycolour and gum arabic - 45.5 x 66.3 cm.
  
• Copying Conditions
  Out of copyright: Creator died before 1955
  Please acknowledge:: Dixson Library, State Library of New South Wales
• Related Material
  Printing plates, [ca. 1920] of Conrad Martens' View of Sydney Harbour from above Tivoli, 1864 / possibly by Hartland & Hyde Pty Ltd (991179)
• Published Information
  Conrad Martens: life and art / Elizabeth Ellis¶Sydney : State Library of New South Wales Press, 1994
• Variant title
  
  Previously titled `Sydney from Vaucluse'
• General note
  
  Account book, 14 May 1864 `View of Sydney Harbour from above Tivoli Capt. Dumareck [Dumaresq] Chas. Kean Esqr £21’. Pencil drawing, `Port Jackson from above Tivoli painted for Chas. Kean Esq 1864’, 29 x 45.5 cm. DG*D 18, f.25
  
  “This is one of only two 1864 commissions. Charles Kean, the Irish actor-manager, was the son of the celebrated tragedian, Edmund Kean. He embarked on a tour of New South Wales and Victoria in late 1863 with his wife, Ellen and a touring company. They arrived in Sydney for their last engagements in May 1864. Tivoli was the property of William Dumaresq at Rose Bay. Today the site is occupied by Kambala Church of England School for Girls”.
  
  Illustrated in Lindsay, L. `Conrad Martens’ Sydney : A&R, 1920, pl. I, 1968, pl. 23; Greater Australia, vol. 1, no. 1, 1928, p.3 and Jones, Early Painters of Australia, p.132
  
  Transferred from 242 P to DL 16 in June 1962 then to DL Pg 2 in June 1973
  Digital order no:a1528495
• Signatures / Inscriptions
  
  Signed and dated `C. Martens 1864’ lower right
• Subject
  Art, Colonial--Australia.
  
• Topic
  watercolours
  harbours
  
• Place
  Vaucluse (N.S.W.)
  Sydney Harbour (N.S.W.)
  
• Exhibited in
  
  Journeys through Landscapes - Conrad Martens Life & Art - State Library of New South Wales (21 November, 1994 - 3 July, 1995)
  Conrad Martens Centenary Exhibition - S.H. Ervin Museum and Art Gallery (May, 1978 - July, 1978)
  Antipodean vision : Australian painting, colonial, impressionist, contemporary - Selected by the Commonwealth Art Advisory Board for showing at the Tate Gallery and the National Gallery in Ottawa, with two pre-view showings in Australia (circa 1962)
  Adelaide Festival of Arts (2nd : 1962) - Adelaide Festival of Arts (January 1970)
• Open Rosetta viewer
  IE3238685

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