• Title
  Album of harbourside and mountain scenes, ca. 1837-1860 / drawn by Conrad Martens
• Creator
  Conrad Martens, 1801-1878
• Call number
  DL PXX 12
  
• Level of description
  fonds
• Date
  
  ca. 1837-1860
• Type of material
  Graphic Materials, Drawings, Watercolours
• Reference code
  825936
• Issue Copy
  Digitised
• Physical Description
  1 album - 9 pencil drawings, 5 watercolours, 1 pencil and wash sketch and 1 colour lithograph - 42. 7 x 62 cm
  
• Scope and Content
  f.1 Coolangatta. Unsigned. Titled and dated ‘16th April, 1860 Monday’ at lower right.
  f.2 [Mountain scene]. Unsigned. Undated. Untitled.
  f.3 View from the Crows Nest. Unsigned. Dated ‘March 27, 1837-‘ beneath title at lower centre of drawing. Various mss. notes.
  f.4 Barrawangs. Unsigned. Dated ‘April 13’. Titled on mount in Sir William Dixson’s (?) hand.
  f.5 Sydney from St. Leonards. Unsigned. Dated ‘Oct 5/42-‘ follows title at lower right.
  f.6 General Stewarts Farm Mout Pleasant [sic]. Unsigned. Undated. Titled at lower right in Rebecca Martens’ (?) hand. A note on mount beneath title in Sir William Dixson’s hand (?) reads ‘?R.Martens’ and a further note in same hand in lower left corner reads, ‘Bathurst’.
  f.7 [Near Blackheath]. Unsigned. Undated. Untitled.
  f.8 Soldiers Point, Darling Harbour. Unsigned. Undated. Titled on mount at lower left in Sir William Dixson’s (?) hand.
  f.9 The Heads near Georges Head. Unsigned. Undated. Titled on mount at lower left in Sir William Dixson’s (?) hand.
  f.10 [Pastoral scene in Devonshire]. Unsigned. Undated. Untitled. A note on mount at lower right in Sir William Dixson’s (?) hand reads, ‘Copy of Girton’ [sic]. This indicates that the painting is probably a copy by Martens of an original by Thomas Girtin. A note, also in Sir William Dixson’s (?) hand on mount at lower left reads, ‘Devonshire’.
  f.11 [Study of rocks and plants]. Unsigned. Undated. Untitled.
  f.12 Near Blackheath, Bathurst Road. Unsigned. Dated ‘May 25/35’ follows title at lower right.
  f.13 Mr. Campbell’s wharf. Unsigned. Undated. Titled on mount at lower left in Sir William Dixson’s (?) hand.
  f.14 Wreck of the Edward Lombe. Unsigned. Undated. Titled at lower left in Sir William Dixson’s (?) hand followed by a note in the same hand reading, “The Edward Lombe was wrecked on August 25, 1834. Martens did not arrive here until April 1835?, is it the Dunbar wrecked on S.Head ‘Aug 20, 1857’. The hull was washed into Middle Harbour”.
  f.15 [Mountain scene]. Unsigned. Undated. Untitled.
  f.16 View in Domain, Sydney. Unsigned. Undated. Titled in lower right. Similar to ‘Mrs. Macquarie’s chair’ at DL PX28.
• 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.
  Digital order no:Album ID : 836338
• Name
  Stewart, William, 1769-1854
  Edward Lombe (Ship)
  Dunbar (sailing ship)
  
• Subject
  Art, Colonial--Australia.
  Martens, Conrad, 1801-1878--Notebooks, sketchbooks, etc.
  Architecture, Colonial--New South Wales.
  
• Topic
  landscapes (views)
  houses
  shorelines
  country scenes
  mountains
  
• Place
  Coolangatta (N.S.W.)
  Sydney (N.S.W.)
  Crows Nest (N.S.W.)
  Mount Pleasant (N.S.W.)
  Blue Mountains (N.S.W. : Mountains)
  Darling Harbour (N.S.W.)
  Devon (England)
  Campbell's Wharf (Sydney, N.S.W.)
  Domain, The (Sydney, N.S.W.)
  Mrs Macquarie's Chair (Sydney, N.S.W.)
  
• Open Rosetta viewer
  IE417474

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