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Title
Album of sketches of St Leonards, Middle Harbour and the Blue Mountains, 1850-1888 / Rebecca Martens
Creator
Rebecca Martens, 1838-1909
Call number
DL PX 38
Level of description
fonds
Date

1850-1888
Type of material
Graphic Materials, Drawings, Watercolours
Reference code
845216
Issue Copy
Copy print : DL PX 38
Available on open access in the Mitchell Library Reading Room
Physical Description
1 sketchbook - 41 pencil sketches, 25 watercolours - various sizes
Scope and Content
DL PX 38

F.1 Cox's River near Rydal
F.2 Cox's River near Rydal
F.3 Rydal
F.4 Sawpit Gully, Rydal
F.5 Rydal
F.6 Bush Road with house in background
F.7 North Shore
F.8 Montrose
F.9 The Gully
F.10 Lavender Bay
F.11 Saint Leonards
F.12 Near The Crowns Nest
F.13 Neutral Bay
F.14 Mulgoa Valley
F.15 Gum trees
F.16 Middle Harbour
F.17 ? Vaucluse
F.18 Scene, showing road in foreground, water and house in background
F.19 Forest scene with large tree on bank of stream
F.20 Pastoral scene showing cattle in a river and mountains background
F.21 Forest scene with road leading through trees to water and mountainous background
F.22 Balls Head [or] Blackwall, Middle Harbour
F.23 Trees; foreground in sunshine, background in shadow
F.24 ? Goat Island
F.25 ? Goat Island
F.26 ? Berry's Bay
F.27 ? Berry's Bay
F.28 From Manly Heights
F.29 View at Bowenfels
F.30 ? Lion Island
F.31 Hunter's Bay. Middle Harbour
F.32 Looking eastwards from Middle Head
F.33 West side of Sydney Cove
F.34 Mrs Carr's house
F.35 Garden with staghorns
F.36 ? From Crowns Nest
F.37 ? From Crowns Nest
F.38 ? From Crowns Nest
F.39 ? Parramatta River from Crows Nest
F.40 Rockleigh Grange, Conrad Martens'House, East Front
F.41 Rockleigh Grange, Martens' house, East Front
F.42 Rockleigh Grange, Martens' house, West Front
F.43 Rockleigh Grange, Martens' house, West Front
F.44 Rockleigh Grange, Martens' house, West Front
F.45 Rockleigh Grange, Martens' house, East Front
F.46 Rockleigh Grange, Martens' house
F.47 Garden scene
F.48 House with garden
F.49 Conrad Martens' painting room at Rockleigh Grange
F.50 Mr Carr's House
F.51 ? Middle Harbour
F.52 The Spit, Middle Harbour
F.53 ? The Spit, Middle Harbour
F.54 ? The Spit, Middle Harbour
F.55 Hunters Bay Middle Harbour
F.56 Middle Harbour
F.57 Folly Point
F.58 Harbour view, probably from Martens' garden
F.59 Garden scene
F.60 Harbour Scene, possibly from Martens' Garden
F.61 Gateway into the bush
F.62 ? From Crows Nest
F.63 From the North Shore ? Near Crows Nest
F.64 The Monastery North Shore
F.65 Beulah
F.66 Mrs Carr's, from Rockleigh Grange
Finding Aids
Contents list available in the Mitchell Library Reading Room -
Description source

Information transferred from Pictures Card Catalogue as part of the eRecords Project, 2008-2009.
Signatures / Inscriptions

Few of the sketches are signed; many are initialled 'R' in unknown hand, possibly added later. Some are dated and most are titled.
Subject
Art, Colonial--New South Wales.
Topic
sketches
landscapes (artwork)
trees
rivers
gardens
gullies
houses
islands
valleys
bays
harbours
bush
settlements
country scenes
mountain scenes
Place
Blue Mountains (N.S.W.)
North Sydney (N.S.W.)
St. Leonards (N.S.W.)
Middle Harbour (N.S.W.)
Cox's River (N.S.W.)
Rydal (N.S.W.)
Crows Nest (N.S.W.)
Lavender Bay (N.S.W.)
Neutral Bay (N.S.W.)
Vaucluse (N.S.W.)
Goat Island (N.S.W.)
Berrys Bay (N.S.W.)
Bowenfels (N.S.W.)
Lion Island (N.S.W.)
Sydney Cove (N.S.W.)
Spit, The (N.S.W.)
Long Bay (Middle Harbour, N.S.W.)
Kirribilli (N.S.W.)
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