• Title
  Sydney Harbour views, houses, rocks and plants, 1851-1873 / drawn by Rebecca Martens
• Creator
  Rebecca Martens, 1838-1909
• Call number
  DL PX 36
  
• Level of description
  fonds
• Date
  
  1851-1873
• Type of material
  Graphic Materials, Drawings, Watercolours
• Reference code
  455968
• Issue Copy
  Partly Digitised : nos. 59-60
  
• Physical Description
  Albums - 1 album (40 pencil sketches, 22 watercolours, 7 ink & wash drawings)
  
• Scope and Content
  1. [Looking from Balmoral towards North Head]
  2. Milsons Pt.
  3. Berry's Bay
  4. Blues Bay
  5. Looking down the Harbour, Sydney
  6. Govt. House from Domain Sydney
  7. Mrs Macquarie's Chair Domain Sydney
  8. Garden[?] Island and The Heads
  9. [Harbourside house]
  10. [Fort Denison] (R.M.)
  11. C. Martens' House
  12. ? Martens' House
  13. Martens House
  14. The Studio, Martens House
  15. The Studio Martens House Sept 1855
  16. Martens House
  17. Martens House
  18. Do [Martens' House]
  19. [Martens' house]
  20. Martens House R.M. 1855
  21. Martens House Sept 1855
  22. Martens House Aug 16th. 1855
  23. [Cottage in garden at Rockleigh Grange]
  24. Do [cottage in garden at Rockleigh Grange] Sept. 1855
  25. [Cottage in garden at Rockleigh Grange] Aug. 1855
  26. [Cottage in garden at Rockleigh Grange]
  27. [Cottage in garden at Rockleigh Grange]
  28. [Unidentified cottage] Sept 29th 1873
  29. [Rockleigh Grange]
  30. Shell Cove [On mount:] Beulah
  31. [House with roof balcony] RM July 1857
  32. [Cottage with slab roof]
  33. [Cottage with slab roof] RM
  34. (Double Bay)
  35. [Scene with triangular rock and wooden fence]
  36. [Scene with stone wall and trees]
  37. [Ferns on wall]
  38. [Weir]
  39. [Harbour inlet]
  40. [Flat rock with ferns]
  41. [Ferns in rocks]
  42. [Tree stump with ferns]
  43. [Figure in scene with stone wall and trees]
  44. [Houses seen through trees]
  45. [Garden scene with rocks]
  46. [Overhanging rocks]
  47. [Tree growing on rock]
  48. [Rocks with wall]
  49. [Rocks with tree trunks]
  50. [Cottage in trees with arched porch]
  51. [Coastal scene, possibly Cabbage-tree Bay]
  52. [Country scene, possibly Cox's River]
  53. [? Bridge over Cox's River]
  54. [St. Thomas Church St. Leonards]
  55. [The Kings' School, Parramatta]
  56. [Unfinished scene with house in trees]
  57. Jimmy Buttons Island, Ponsonby Sound
  58. Ponsonby Sound
  59. View in Rio Harbour with the Corcovado
  60. ? Cape Verde Islands after CM.
  61a-b. [Two studies of red pelargoniums]
  62a-b. [Pink pelargoniums and purple and white pelargoniums]
  63. [Flower study]
  64. [White flower]
• Copying Conditions
  Out of copyright: Artist died before 1955
  Please acknowledge:: Dixson Library, State Library of New South Wales
• General note
  
  Few signed, dated or tiled. Mostly initialled `R' in unknown hand, possibly added later -- information from catalogued card
  Digital order no:Album ID : 948057
• Topic
  artists' studios
  bridges
  churches
  country scenes
  ferns
  flowers
  harbours
  headlands
  houses
  islands
  official residences
  overhanging rocks
  palm trees
  rocks (landscape)
  rowing boats
  sailing ships
  schools & colleges
  suburbs
  trees
  walls
  
• Place
  Berrys Bay (N.S.W.)
  Double Bay (N.S.W.)
  Fort Denison (Sydney, N.S.W.)
  Mrs Macquarie's Chair (Sydney, N.S.W.)
  Sydney Harbour (N.S.W.)
  Sydney (N.S.W.)
  
• Exhibited in
  
  O Rio de Janeiro na Rota Dos Mares Do Dul (Rio de Janeiro on the South Seas route)
• Open Rosetta viewer
  IE8676438

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