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825955
  • Title
    Album of sketches of Sydney and surrounds / Conrad Martens
  • Creator
  • Call number
    PXC 970
  • Level of description
    fonds
  • Date

    approximately 1835-1870
  • Type of material
  • Reference code
    825955
  • Physical Description
    1 album (24 drawings) - pencil, pencil and wash - 28 x 38 cm (album)
  • Scope and Content
    f.1 Dawes Point. Unsigned. Undated. Titled at lower left.
    f.2 View of Pitwater [sic] and Scotland Island from the South. Unsigned. Titled and dated, ‘Sep. 12. 35-‘.
    f.3 Jacobs ladder South Head. Unsigned. Titled and dated, ‘Decr. 6/35’.
    f.4 Ashcrofts Ford, Nepean River. Unsigned. Titled and dated, ’28 March/36’. Mss. notes concerning colours.
    f.5 From New Township Goulburn Plains Lake, George Ranges [?] in distance. Unsigned. Titled and dated, ‘Augt. 1/36’.
    f.6 Cookbundoon River. Unsigned. Titled and dated, ‘Aust. 3/36’.
    f.7 The Sawmill Dam, Bowens Gully. Unsigned. Titled and dated, ‘July 19-38-‘.
    f.8 [House?] of L. Campbell Esq. J.P. Parramatta. Unsigned. Titled and dated, ‘March 20. 39’.
    f.9 Werrington. Unsigned. Titled and dated, ‘Augst. 25/39’. Below the title is written ‘Wellington’ which has been crossed out. At upper centre is written ‘-South’, and at upper left is an indecipherable note, probably about the residence in the sketch.
    f.10 Interior of cave at Wellington. Unsigned. Titled and dated, ‘March 25/40’. At lower left is an indecipherable note in an unknown hand.
    f.11 Wellington Caves. Unsigned. Titled and dated, ‘Mar. 25/40’. Mss. notes concerning colours.
    f.12 Elswick. Unsigned. Titled and dated, ‘March 20th. 45’.
    f.13 Franklin Vale. Unsigned. Titled and dated, ‘Jany. 22. 1852’.
    f.14 [Building being erected]. Unsigned. Untitled. Dated, ‘March 13th. 1858’.
    f.15 The Lodge A. Jeffreys Esq. Unsigned. Titled and dated, ‘Sept. 17 [?] 1860’. Indecipherable note along lower edge.
    f.16 View from Camden Park. Unsigned. Titled and dated, ‘Augt. 6th. 1870’. In upper right corner is a very small sketch of the same view as seen from a different angle.
    f.17 Entrance to Brownlow Hill. Unsigned. Titled and dated, ‘5 Augst. 1870’.
    f.18 In Domain Sydney. Unsigned. Undated. Titled.
    f.19 From the dining room Mr. Jenckens Cottage, Darling Point. Unsigned. Titled and dated, ‘Oc 24th’.
    f.20 In the Harbour. Unsigned. Undated. Titled.
    f.21 [Waterside scene, probably in Sydney Harbour]. Unsigned. Undated. Untitled.
    f.22 [View of a river]. Unsigned. Undated. Untitled.
    f.23 [Cottage by a river]. Unsigned. Undated. Untitled.
    f.24 [Bushland scene]. Unsigned. Undated. Untitled.
  • Copying Conditions
    Out of copyright:
    Please acknowledge:: Mitchell Library, State Library of New South Wales
  • Published Information
    Conrad Martens: life & art by Elizabeth Ellis. Sydney: State Library of NSW Press, 1994
  • Description source

    SLNSW Mitchell Library Pictures Card Catalogue
  • General note

    Contents list included at front of album.
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  • Topic
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  • Open Rosetta viewer

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