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Title
Sketchbook of figures and scenes, ca. 1850-1854? / drawn by Conrad Martens
Creator
Conrad Martens, 1801-1878
Call number
DL PX 15
Level of description
fonds
Date

ca. 1850-1854
Type of material
Graphic Materials, Drawings, Watercolours
Reference code
825881
Issue Copy
Digitised
Physical Description
1 sketchbook (30 leaves and 12 sheets) - 13 x 19 cm - sketchbook with metal clasp, 1 crayon, 28 pencil, 9 ink, 12 watercolours, and 12 loose drawings
Scope and Content
Front endpaper [Three studies of cavalrymen]. Unsigned. Undated. Untitled.
f.1 [Children with green umbrella]. Unsigned. Undated. Untitled. News cutting of classical figure titled ‘Pedum’ pasted upper left.
f.2 [Government House]. Unsigned. Dated ‘May 7th 1850’ at lower right. Untitled. Note reading ‘painted for Lady Gipps Sept. 1850’ lower right.
f.3 [Government House]. Unsigned. Dated ‘May 28th 1850’. Untitled.
f.4 [View of Bridge Street, looking west]. Unsigned. Dated ‘June 11th’. Untitled. St. Phillip’s Church is in the centre of the drawing and the side of St. Patrick’s can be seen on the right. The dome-like building in front of St. Patrick’s is in fact the side wall of a terrace house (c.f. Mitchell Library photographs, Small Picture File: Sydney - Streets - Bridge Street, c. 1875).
f.5 Barncleuth. Jno. Brown Esq. Unsigned. Dated ‘June 11th /50‘ and titled at lower right.
f.6 The Beehouse. Unsigned. Dated ‘Oct 19th /50‘ and titled at lower right.
f.7 Bridgett Dean. Whitefoot. Unsigned. Undated. [Three watercolour studies including an untitled study of two figures].
f.8 [Figure studies]. Unsigned. Undated; dated from other drawings in the same book. Untitled.
f.9 Elswick. James Norton Esq. Unsigned. Dated ‘Augst 3 /51’ and titled at lower right.
f.10 [Figure studies]. Unsigned. Undated; dated from other drawings in the same book. Untitled.
f.11 [Studies of woman and ships]. Unsigned. Undated; dated from other drawings in the same book. Untitled.
f.12 [Studies of horseman and cloaked woman]. Unsigned. Undated; dated from other drawings in the same book. Untitled.
f.13 [Studies of horseman with pedestrians; chickens with cattle]. Unsigned. Undated; dated from other drawings in the same book. Untitled.
f.14 [Studies of horses and carts with pedestrians]. Unsigned. Undated; dated from other drawings in the same book. Untitled.
f.14 verso [Study of brolgas]. Unsigned. Undated; dated from other drawings in the same book. Untitled.
f.15 [Studies of yacht and woman]. Unsigned. Undated; dated from other drawings in the same book. Untitled.
f.16 [Study of kangaroos]. Unsigned. Undated; dated from other drawings in the same book. Untitled.
f.17 [Figure study]. Unsigned. Undated; dated from other drawings in the same book. Untitled.
f.18 Acheron [ship]. Unsigned. Dated ‘Sept 7th/ 54’ and titled at lower right.
f.19 Manly Beach. Unsigned. Dated ‘Dec. 2. 1854’ and titled at lower right.
f.19 verso [upside down] [River scene]. Unsigned. Undated; dated from other drawings in the same book. Untitled.
f.20 [Study of Aboriginal figures]. Unsigned. Undated; dated from other drawings in the same book. Untitled.
f.21 [Study of figures on cliff]. Unsigned. Undated; dated from other drawings in the same book. Untitled. F.35, loose in envelope in the sketchbook, is of the male figure in this sketch.
f.21 verso [Sailors in longboats]. Unsigned. Undated; dated from other drawings in the same book. Untitled.
f.22 The Ferry Queen. Unsigned. Undated; dated from other drawings in the same book. Titled at lower right.
f.23 [Bush scene]. Unsigned. Undated; dated from other drawings in the same book. Untitled.
f.24 [Harbourside tree]. Unsigned. Undated; dated from other drawings in the same book. Untitled.
f.25 [View from Rockleigh Grange showing Carr’s house]. Unsigned. Undated; dated from other drawings in the same book. Untitled. Sketch is identified by comparisons with ‘Mrs Carr’s from outside our fence’ (ML Ref DGD 12 f.11).
f.26 [Scene with gum trees]. Unsigned. Undated; dated from other drawings in the same book. Untitled.
f.27 [Gum tree]. Unsigned. Undated; dated from other drawings in the same book. Untitled.
f.27 verso [upside down] The gully from dining room window. Unsigned. Undated; dated from other drawings in the same book. Titled upper centre. Notes regarding colours.
f.28 [Forest scene with large rock]. Unsigned. Undated; dated from other drawings in the same book. Untitled.
f.28 verso [upside down] [Harbour view]. Unsigned. Undated; dated from other drawings in the same book. Untitled. Notes regarding colours.
f.29 [Four small figure studies]. Unsigned. Undated; dated from other drawings in the same book. Untitled. Three of the studies are on tracing paper pasted to album page.
f.30-f.29 verso [upside down] [Sydney Cove]. Unsigned. Undated; dated from other drawings in the same book. Untitled but notes on the drawing identify 'head of the cove', ‘Campbell house’ and 'houses on the Rock'.
f.30 verso [upside down] [Unfinished landscape]. Unsigned. Undated; dated from other drawings in the same book. Untitled.
Back endpaper [Study of figures sitting under tree]. Unsigned. Undated; dated from other drawings in the same book. Untitled. Affixed to back cover. On the reverse there are two further figure studies. There is a second smaller sheet also pasted to the back cover containing three figure studies, underneath which is pasted a news cutting containing a poem describing a sunset.

Twelve loose sheets in packet:
f.31 [Studies of horsemen]. Unsigned. Undated; dated from other drawings in the same book. Untitled.
f.31 verso [Tree].
f.32 [Paddle steamer]. Unsigned. Undated; dated from other drawings in the same book. Untitled. On blue writing paper.
f.33 [Paddle steamer]. Unsigned. Undated; dated from other drawings in the same book. Untitled. On blue writing paper.
f.34 [Paddle steamer]. Unsigned. Undated; dated from other drawings in the same book. Untitled. On blue envelope.
f.35 [Male figure study]. Unsigned. Undated; dated from other drawings in the same book. Untitled. On tracing paper. (See f.21)
f.36 [Sailing vessel]. Unsigned. Undated; dated from other drawings in the same book. Untitled. On tracing paper.
f.37 [Woman and two children]. Unsigned. Undated; dated from other drawings in the same book. Untitled. On tracing paper.
f.38 [Two horsemen]. Unsigned. Undated; dated from other drawings in the same book. Untitled. On tracing paper.
f.39 [Dog and sailing ship]. Unsigned. Undated; dated from other drawings in the same book. Untitled. On tracing paper.
f.40 [Angle and star]. Unsigned. Undated; dated from other drawings in the same book. Untitled. On tracing paper.
f.40 verso [Sketches including waterbird].
f.41 [Male study]. Unsigned. Undated; dated from other drawings in the same book. Untitled. On tracing paper.
f.42 [Tree tops]. Unsigned. Undated; dated from other drawings in the same book. Untitled. On tracing paper.
Copying Conditions
Out of copyright: Creator died before 1955
Please acknowledge:: Dixson Library, State Library of New South Wales
Description source

SLNSW Mitchell Library Pictures Card Catalogue
Variant title

Martens Sketch Book 6
General note

Pasted on back endpaper is stationery’s label of: Roberson & Co. 51 Long Acre, London.
Signatures / Inscriptions

Label in Sir William Dixon’s hand: “Martens Sketch Book 6” -- spine
Name
Acheron (Ship)
Ferry Queen (paddle steamer)
Subject
Martens, Conrad, 1801-1878--Notebooks, sketchbooks, etc.
Art, Colonial--Australia.
Architecture, Colonial--New South Wales.
Adult Females
Adult Males
Topic
Aboriginal peoples (Australians)
ships
bays
houses
native plants
horsedrawn carts
brolgas
kangaroos
churches
paddle steamers
children
bush
Place
Sydney Harbour (N.S.W.)
Campbell's Wharf (Sydney, N.S.W.)
Manly Beach (N.S.W.)
Government House (Sydney, N.S.W.)
Bridge Street (Sydney, N.S.W.)
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