Sydney Harbour from the garden of Greenoak[s], Double Bay, 1857 / Copy print of original watercolour by Conrad Martens

XV/52

fonds

1999 (print of 1857 original), Sydney : National Trust of Australia (New South Wales). Limited edition no. 22/200

Graphic Materials, Prints

404275

Copy print : XV/52

Prints - 49.4 x 70.3 cm (image) in window mount 67 x 86 cm - with blind stamp of the common seal of the National Trust of Australia (NSW) lower right - 1 iris inkjet print on Arches paper of original watercolour (45.1 x 64.7 cm)

Reproduction Restricted

Original presented to the S.H. Ervin Gallery, National Trust of Australia (New South Wales) by the Misses Enid and Margaret Mort, England, 1980.
Original is listed in Martens' Account Book, February 11th 1857 (ref. ZDL MS 143, f. 5, microfilm copy CY REEL 454, frame 652): 'View from Mort's Garden. [Purchased by] T.S. Mort Esq. 20 [pounds]'.
The related pencil sketch held in the Dixson Galleries collection, Mitchell Library is 'From Greenoaks - T.S. Mort Esq - Jan. 23. 1857', ref. ZDG*D 18, f. 19.
Point Piper is in the centre of the view.