• Title
  Album of sketches of bridges, towers and cottages, ca. 1831-1878 / drawn by Conrad Martens
• Creator
  Conrad Martens, 1801-1878
• Call number
  DL PX 32
  
• Level of description
  fonds
• Date
  
  ca. 1831-1878
• Type of material
  Graphic Materials, Drawings, Watercolours, Photographs
• Reference code
  825964
• Issue Copy
  Digitised
• Physical Description
  1 album - 18 pencil sketches, 5 watercolours, and 1 photograph - 22.4 x 34.2 cm
  
• Scope and Content
  f.1 [Farmyard gate]. Unsigned. Undated. Untitled. ‘English’ is written in Sir William Dixson’s (?) hand at lower right on mount.
  f.2 Exmouth. Unsigned. Dated ‘June 26, 1831’ and titled at lower right in Sir William Dixson’s (?) hand.
  f.3 [Ruined tower on sea coast]. Unsigned. Undated. Untitled. ‘English’ is written in Sir William Dixson’s (?) hand at lower right on mount.
  f.4 [Entrance to cottage]. Unsigned. Undated. Untitled. ‘English’ is written in Sir William Dixson’s (?) hand at lower right on mount.
  f.5 [A rustic bridge]. Unsigned. Undated. Untitled.
  f.6 [A castellated wall near water]. Unsigned. Undated. Untitled.
  f.7 [Church with square tower]. Unsigned. Undated. Untitled. ‘English’ is written in Sir William Dixson’s (?) hand at lower right on mount.
  f.8 [An archway]. Unsigned. Undated. Untitled. ‘English’ is written in Sir William Dixson’s (?) hand at lower right on mount.
  f.9 [A tower or grain store]. Unsigned. Undated. Untitled. ‘English’ is written in Sir William Dixson’s (?) hand at lower right on mount.
  f.10 Tintern Abbey. Unsigned. Undated. Titled in Sir William Dixson’s (?) hand at lower right on mount.
  f.11 [On the sea shore]. Unsigned. Undated. Untitled.
  f.12 [Stone bridge with two arches]. Unsigned. Undated. Untitled.
  f.13 [A fir tree]. Unsigned. Undated. Untitled.
  f.14 [Thatched cottage]. Unsigned. Undated. Untitled. ‘English’ is written in Sir William Dixson’s (?) hand at lower right on mount.
  f.15 [Bridge across rocky gorge]. Unsigned. Undated. Untitled.
  f.16 [A cottage]. Unsigned. Undated. Untitled. ‘English’ is written in Sir William Dixson’s (?) hand at lower right on mount.
  f.17 [A barn]. Unsigned. Undated. Untitled. ‘English’ is written in Sir William Dixson’s (?) hand at lower right on mount.
  f.18 [Portrait of Conrad Martens, ca 1870s]. Unsigned. Undated. Untitled. ‘C. Martens’ is written in Sir William Dixson’s (?) hand at lower right on mount. Photograph touched with watercolour.
  f.19 [Ruined tower]. Unsigned. Undated. Untitled. ‘English’ is written in Sir William Dixson’s (?) hand at lower right on mount.
  f.20 [Ruined tower]. Unsigned. Undated. Untitled. ‘English’ is written in Sir William Dixson’s (?) hand at lower right on mount.
  f.21 Palmer’s House, Wooloomooloo. Unsigned. Undated. Titled in Sir William Dixson’s (?) hand at lower right on mount. The style of the drawing indicates that it is unlikely to be Martens’ work.
  f.22 Double Bay. Unsigned. Undated; dated from similar lithograph ‘View in Double Bay, Sydney’ in his ‘Sketches in the environs of Sydney’, ref: ML Q981.1M. Titled in Sir William Dixson’s (?) hand at lower right on mount.
  f.23 [Cloud study]. Unsigned. Undated. Untitled.
  f.24 [Landscape with gum trees]. Unsigned. Dated, ‘March 27’. 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.
• Subject
  Art, Colonial--Australia.
  Martens, Conrad, 1801-1878--Notebooks, sketchbooks, etc.
  
• Topic
  landscapes (views)
  houses
  churches
  shorelines
  trees
  castles
  plants
  clouds
  towers
  portraits
  bridges
  
• Place
  Double Bay (N.S.W.)
  Exmouth (England)
  Wales
  
• Open Rosetta viewer
  IE8673139

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