• Title
  Album of sketches and watercolours in England and Australia, ca. 1858-1862? / drawn by Conrad Martens
• Creator
  Conrad Martens, 1801-1878
• Call number
  DL PXX 11
  
• Level of description
  fonds
• Date
  
  ca. 1858-1862?
• Type of material
  Graphic Materials, Drawings, Watercolours
• Reference code
  825972
• Physical Description
  1 album - 3 pencil sketches, 10 watercolours, 2 sepia drawings and 1 col. lithograph - 42.7 x 62 cm
  
• Scope and Content
  f.1 Alexr. Berry Esq. Unsigned. Titled and dated ‘March 28th 1858’ at lower right. At upper right is a detailed, small sketch of a chimney.
  f.2 [Harbour scene]. Unsigned. Undated. Untitled.
  f.3 Govt. House from the Domain. Unsigned. Undated. Titled at lower left.
  f.4 Nobby’s, Newcastle. Unsigned. Undated. Untitled. The sketch has been made on the reverse of a printed page and some words show through into the sketch.
  f.5 Point Piper. Unsigned. Undated. Titled on mount at lower right in Sir William Dixson’s (?) hand.
  f.6 Hunter Bay, Middle Harbour. Unsigned. Undated. Titled on mount at lower left in Sir William Dixson’s (?) hand.
  f.7 Glass House, Moreton Bay. Unsigned. Undated. Titled on mount at lower left in Sir William Dixson’s (?) hand. The sketch has been made on the reverse of a printed page and some words show through into the sketch.
  f.8 Glass House, Moreton Bay. Unsigned. Undated. Titled on mount at lower left in Sir William Dixson’s (?) hand. The sketch has been made on the reverse of a printed page and some words show through into the sketch. Similar to f.7.
  f.9 Mount Wingen. Unsigned. Dated ‘May 23, 1862’ beneath title at lower left. There are four notes regarding colours on the drawing at lower left, one indicating ‘W’ at centre top. The image has a large cross through it.
  f.10 Loquats. Unsigned. Undated. Titled on mount in lower left in Sir William Dixson’s (?) hand.
  f.11 Dartmoor. Unsigned. Undated. Titled on mount in lower left in Sir William Dixson’s (?) hand.
  f.12 Chesil Beach from Portland. Unsigned. Undated. Titled on mount in lower left in Sir William Dixson’s (?) hand.
  f.13 The Heads from nr. Middle Head. Unsigned. Undated. Titled on mount in lower left in Sir William Dixson’s (?) hand.
  f.14 View from Mr. Berry’s. Unsigned. Undated. Title at lower left follwed by note, ‘Painted for Sir Chas Nicholson’. A note on mount in lower left in Sir William Dixson’s (?) hand reads ‘From Crows Nest’.
  f.15 View, possibly in South America. Unsigned. Undated. Titled ‘S. America’ on mount in lower left in Sir William Dixson’s (?) hand.
  f.16 [Unidentified landscape]. 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
  
  Bookplate of ‘Sir William Dixson’ – Inside front cover.
• Name
  Berry, Alexander, 1781-1873
  
• Subject
  Martens, Conrad, 1801-1878--Notebooks, sketchbooks, etc.
  Art, Colonial--Australia.
  
• Topic
  landscapes (views)
  country scenes
  harbours
  shorelines
  
• Place
  Dartmoor (England)
  Crows Nest House (North Sydney, N.S.W.)
  Government House (Sydney, N.S.W.)
  Domain, The (Sydney, N.S.W.)
  Nobbys (Newcastle, N.S.W.)
  Point Piper (N.S.W.)
  Hunters Bay (Balmoral)
  Glass House Mountains (Qld.)
  Wingen, Mount (N.S.W.)
  Sydney Heads (N.S.W.)
  
• Open Rosetta viewer
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