• Title
  Album of sketches and studies in Devonshire and New South Wales, ca. 1830-1878 / drawn by Conrad Martens
• Creator
  Conrad Martens, 1801-1878
• Call number
  DL PX 29
  
• Level of description
  fonds
• Date
  
  ca. 1830-1878
• Type of material
  Graphic Materials, Drawings, Watercolours
• Reference code
  825934
• Issue Copy
  Digitised
• Physical Description
  1 album - 19 pencil sketches, 1 grey wash, and 2 watercolours - 22.4 x 34.2 cm
  
• Scope and Content
  f.1 [Landscape study]. Unsigned. Undated. Untitled.
  f.2 [Tree ferns]. Unsigned. Undated. Untitled.
  f.3 [Tree studies]. Unsigned. Undated. Untitled.
  f.4 [A barn]. Unsigned. Undated. Untitled.
  f.5 [Bush scene with camp]. Unsigned. Undated. Untitled. Sir William Dixson’s contents list states that this is not the work of Conrad Martens. The different style of the drawing supports this statement.
  f.6 [Shore scene]. Unsigned. Undated. Untitled. Although Sir William Dixson’s contents list states that this is not the work of Conrad Martens the style is very similar to that of Martens.
  f.7 Lodge Gates, Botanical Gardens. Unsigned. Undated. Titled on mount at lower right in Sir William Dixson’s (?) hand.
  f.8 [Thatched cottage]. Unsigned. Undated. Untitled.
  f.9 [Ruined castle]. Unsigned. Undated. Untitled.
  f.10 [A windmill]. Unsigned. Undated. Untitled.
  f.11 [Island tower]. Unsigned. Undated. Untitled.
  f.12 St. Thomas Church, St. Leonards. Unsigned. Undated. Titled on mount at lower right in Sir William Dixson’s (?) hand.
  f.13 [Unidentified church]. Unsigned. Undated. Untitled.
  f.14 [A stone gateway]. Unsigned. Undated. Untitled.
  f.15 [A stone bridge]. Unsigned. Undated. Untitled.
  f.16 Allington Castle, Kent. Unsigned. Undated. Titled on sketch at bottom right.
  f.17 [Tree study]. Unsigned. Undated. Untitled.
  f.18 [Ruined castle]. Unsigned. Undated. Untitled.
  f.19 [Stone bridge near house]. Unsigned. Undated. Untitled.
  f.20 [Tree study]. Unsigned. Undated. Untitled.
  f.21 [A punt]. Unsigned. Undated. Untitled.
  f.22 [Study of foliage and rocks]. Unsigned. Undated. Untitled.
• Copying Conditions
  Out of copyright: Creator died before 1955
  Please acknowledge:: Dixson Library, State Library of New South Wales
• Description source
  
  SLNSW Mitchell Library Pictures Card Catalogue
• General note
  
  ‘Sketches – Conrad Martens’ – Spine
  Bookplate of ‘Sir William Dixson’ – Inside front cover.
• Attributions / conjectures
  
  Date range based on previous drawings of Devonshire (ca. 1830s), and Conrad Martens death in 1878.
• Subject
  Art, Colonial--Australia.
  Martens, Conrad, 1801-1878--Notebooks, sketchbooks, etc.
  
• Topic
  landscapes (views)
  houses
  churches
  rocks (landscape)
  bush
  coasts
  shorelines
  trees
  windmills
  castles
  stone bridges
  
• Place
  St. Thomas' Anglican Church (North Sydney, N.S.W.)
  Domain Lodge (Sydney, N.S.W.)
  Allington Castle (Maidstone, Kent)
  
• Open Rosetta viewer
  IE8673421

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