• Title
  [Album of pencil sketches], ca.1828-1860 / by Conrad Martens
• Creator
  Conrad Martens, 1801-1878
• Call number
  PXC 299
  
• Level of description
  fonds
• Date
  
  1828-1860
• Type of material
  Graphic Materials, Drawings
• Reference code
  457359
• Issue Copy
  Digitised
• Physical Description
  1 album (21 pencil drawings) - 31 x 48 cm.
  
• Scope and Content
  1. [Sydney from St. Leonards]. Jany 15 1851. Untitled and identified by comparison with similar Martens sketches
  2. [Harbour scene, possibly Darling Harbour]
  3. Sydney Cove
  4. [Harbour scene with ships]
  5. Tahlee, Port Stephens. April 22/41
  6. Neutral Bay, Port Jackson. Nov 19th 47
  7. [Thatched cottage]
  8. St Leonards. Sept 20th
  9. Alington Castle [sic] on the Medway. Dated `1828-1832' from the time Martens spent in Devonshire
  10. Viw [sic] at Rose Bay. Aug 2, 1849
  11. North Head. Aug 26th/48
  12. Seat of Jeffreys Esq. Sep. 27th 1860
  13. [Part of a turreted building, possibly Government House];
  14. Tahiti from Afarcaitu - Moorea. Dated `1835' from the year Martens visited Tahiti
  15. View at Tahiti. Feby 28/35
  16. Bunaauia [sic] or Bauder's Point. At lower right Feby 21/35
  17. [Tahitian waterfall]. Untitled, identified as Tahiti by the shape of the mountains, vegetation. Dated `1835' from the year Martens visited Tahiti. Signed `C.Martens at lower left corner
  18. Cap. Wallis lay, off this bluff when he was attacked by the natives. Dated `1835' from the year Martens visited Tahiti
  19. From the front of Mr Wilson's house Matavai. Dated `1835' from the year Martens visited Tahiti
  20. Fall at Tahiti. Feby 15/35
  21. Ninita or Pawpaw, Tahiti. Dated `1835' from the year Martens visited Tahiti
• Copying Conditions
  Out of copyright: Creator died before 1955
  Please acknowledge:: Mitchell Library, State Library of New South Wales
• General note
  
  Contents list available in the front of album
  All the works are unsigned except for No. 14. Tahiti from Afarcaitu
  Nine of the works are dated and thirteen are titled
  Digital order no:Album ID : 1037091
• Subject
  Art, Colonial--Australia.
  David Scott Mitchell Collection.
  
• Topic
  bush
  castles
  harbours
  houses
  huts
  ships
  trees
  waterfalls
  jetties & wharves
  
• Place
  Allington Castle (Maidstone, Kent)
  Canterbury House (Ashfield, N.S.W.)
  Darling Harbour (N.S.W.)
  Moorea (French Polynesia)
  Neutral Bay (N.S.W.)
  North Head (Port Jackson, N.S.W.)
  Rose Bay (N.S.W.)
  St. Leonards (N.S.W.)
  Sydney Cove (N.S.W.)
  Tahiti (French Polynesia : Island).
  Tahlee (N.S.W.)
  
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