• Title
  Portfolio collection of views, mainly in New South Wales, ca. 1835-1878 / drawn by Conrad Martens
• Creator
  Conrad Martens, 1801-1878
• Call number
  DG*D 20
  
• Level of description
  fonds
• Date
  
  ca. 1835-1878
• Type of material
  Graphic Materials, Watercolours
• Reference code
  825897
• Issue Copy
  Digitised
• Physical Description
  1 portfolio - 51 x 39 cm - 8 watercolours, 1 pencil and wash, and 1 pencil and watercolour
  
• Scope and Content
  f.1 [Landscape]. Unsigned. Undated. Untitled.
  f.2 Rocks near Bondi. Unsigned. Undated. Titled on back in Sir William Dixson’s (?) hand. This watercolour is similar to ‘Near Bondi Bay’ (ref: PX14, f.14), ‘Cliffs at Bondi’ (ref: PX27, f.23), and ‘Cliffs near Bondi’ (ref: PX31, f.9).
  f.3 Cape Verd [sic] Is. Signed ‘C. Martens’ at lower left. Undated. Titled on back in Sir William Dixson’s (?) hand.
  f.4 [Landscape]. Unsigned. Undated. Untitled.
  f.5 [Cottage]. Unsigned. Undated. Untitled.
  f.6 [Sydney from North Shore]. Unsigned. Undated. Untitled. Possibly by Frederick Garling, rather than Conrad Martens. Stylistically the watercolour, with its focus on architecture and its signature elongated depiction of buildings, matches other townscapes by Garling in the Library's collections.
  f.7 [Sunset]. Unsigned. Undated. Untitled.
  f.8 [Landscape]. Unsigned. Undated. Untitled.
  f.9 Victoria Inn, Little Hartley, N.S.W. Unsigned. Undated. Untitled. Titled as ‘Hartley Stockade, New South Wales’ by Sir Lionel Lindsay, see PXn 650.
  f.10 [Cloud study]. Unsigned. Undated. Untitled.
• Copying Conditions
  Out of copyright: Artist died before 1955.
• Published Information
  Conrad Martens : life & art / Elizabeth Ellis. Sydney : State Library of New South Wales Press, 1994.
• Description source
  
  SLNSW Mitchell Library Pictures Card Catalogue
• General note
  
  Images ff.7, 9 are reproduced in: Conrad Martens : the man and his art / by Lionel Lindsay.
  Digital order no:Album ID : 981171
• Attributions / conjectures
  
  Date of works based on Martens’ time in Australia.
• Subject
  Artists' preparatory studies.
  Art, Colonial--Australia.
  
• Topic
  landscapes (views)
  bush
  harbours
  coasts
  mountains
  
• Place
  Sydney Harbour (N.S.W.)
  Sydney (N.S.W.)
  Victoria Inn (Little Hartley)
  
• Exhibited in
  
  Journeys through Landscapes - Conrad Martens Life & Art
  Picturing the Great Divide
• Open Rosetta viewer
  IE418311

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