• Title
  [Mosman Bay, 1848] / drawn by Conrad Martens
• Creator
  Conrad Martens, 1801-1878
• Call number
  DG V1A/18
  
• Level of description
  fonds
• Date
  
  1848
• Type of material
  Graphic Materials, Watercolours
• Reference code
  825994
• Issue Copy
  Digitised
• Physical Description
  1 watercolour - pencil with bodycolour and gum arabic - 29.2 x 45.2 cm.
  
• Copying Conditions
  Out of copyright: Creator died before 1955
  Please acknowledge:: Dixson Galleries, State Library of New South Wales
• Published Information
  Conrad Martens: life and art / Elizabeth Ellis¶Sydney : State Library of New South Wales Press, 1994
• General note
  
  Martens painted several views of Mosman Bay from The Rangers, Oswald Bloxsome’s Sydney house but only after the return to England in 1850 of Oswald Brierly, an artist-friend of Bloxsome’s who stayed at a small cottage on the estate in the 1840s. Martens also sold pictures of Mosman Bay and the house to its next occupant, Henry Stuart Russell -- Conrad Martens: life and art / Elizabeth Ellis, 1994, p.165
  
  Account book, 1 Jan. 1848 `J. Stirling Esq. 2 views (coloured sketches) of his place £2.2.0, the latter now in NLA. Pencil drawing, `Mossman’s [sic] Bay J. Stirling Esq D[ecember] 27/43, title and date lower right, inscribed in another hand (R.T. Carter?) `Old Mossman [sic] Bay, not Ben Boyd - another Whale ship owner. Ship hove down by the windlass sunk in wharf ..’, 20.1 x 31 cm., DL PX 25, f.10.
  
  Illustrated in Bohemians in the bush, p.10, pl. 2, cat. No.51
  Digital order no:a1528357
• Signatures / Inscriptions
  
  Signed lower right `C. Martens’
• Subject
  Whaling stations--New South Wales.
  Art, Colonial--Australia.
  
• Topic
  watercolours
  bays
  whaling stations
  landscapes (views)
  
• Place
  Mosmans Bay (N.S.W.)
  
• Exhibited in
  
  Celebrating early Sydney - S.H. Ervin Museum and Art Gallery (6 October - 6 November, 1983)
• Open Rosetta viewer
  IE3239229

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