• Title
  Sketchbook of harbour and bush scenes, ca. 1856-1872? / drawn by Conrad Martens
• Creator
  Conrad Martens, 1801-1878
• Call number
  DL PX 17
  
• Level of description
  fonds
• Date
  
  ca. 1856-1880
• Type of material
  Graphic Materials, Drawings, Watercolours
• Reference code
  825884
• Issue Copy
  Digitised
• Physical Description
  1 sketchbook (47 leaves) - 13.5 x 19 cm - 2 watercolours, 4 pencil and watercolour, 23 pencil drawings, with additional manuscript notes. Some leaves are blank
  
• Scope and Content
  [Front endpaper]. Some pencil notes on front endpaper are too faded and indistinct to be deciphered.
  f.1 Brady’s Bay. Unsigned. Undated. Titled at lower right.
  f.2 [Bush scene]. Unsigned. Undated. Untitled.
  f.2 verso-f.3 View near Kissing Point. Unsigned. Dated ‘May 9th/56’ and titled at lower right.
  f.4 [House on foreshore, possibly Beulah]. Unsigned. Dated ‘Oct 20th’ at lower right. Untitled.
  f.5 [Ferry in dock]. Unsigned. Undated. Untitled.
  f.6 Coogee. Unsigned. Dated ‘Nov 22, 1856’ and titled at upper right. The drawing is similar to a wash drawing entitled ‘Near Coogee’ (ref: DL PX 27, f.24).
  f.7 [Trees and rocks]. Unsigned. Undated. Untitled.
  f.8 [Unfinished sketch of houses]. Unsigned. Undated. Untitled.
  f.9 [Observatory Hill?] Unsigned. Undated. Untitled.
  f.10 [Trees and rocks] Unsigned. Undated. Untitled.
  f.11 [House beside the water]. Unsigned. Undated. Untitled.
  f.12 [Valley with house in distance]. Unsigned. Dated ‘Nov 4th 58’ at lower left. Untitled.
  f.13 Manly Beach. Unsigned. Dated ’19 June 59’ and titled at lower right.
  f.13 verso-f.14 From Bradley’s Head. Unsigned. Dated ‘10th Sept. 1859’ and titled at lower right.
  f.14 verso-f.15 [A view of houses near water, probably Sydney Harbour]. Unsigned. Undated. Untitled.
  f.16 [Blank]
  f.16 verso-f.17 [Harbour view showing Port Macquarie]. Unsigned. Undated. Untitled.
  f.18 Wollongong from on board the Steamer. Unsigned. Dated ‘11th April’ and titled at upper right and lower right.
  f.19 At Kiama. Unsigned. Dated ‘11th April’ and titled at upper right.
  f.19 verso-f.20 Kiama from the Steamer. Unsigned. Dated '11 April, 1860’ and titled at lower right.
  f.20 verso-f.21 Coolangatta from the sea. Unsigned. Dated ‘April 11, 1860’ and titled at lower right.
  f.22 [A coastal scene]. Unsigned. Undated. Untitled.
  f.22 verso [Sketches and notes relating to the 'Behar' in f.23].
  f.23 Behar, departure of S.W. Denison. Unsigned. Dated ‘Jan 22nd, 1861’ and titled at lower left. Coloured sketches of flags with notes regarding colours at top right.
  f.24 [Sketch of cloud formation]. Unsigned. Undated. Untitled. Notes regarding colours.
  f.25 [Blank]
  f.26 [Manly Cove]. Unsigned. Undated. Untitled.
  f.26 verso Lamrorck’s [Lamrock's] Hotel, Manly Beach. Unsigned. Undated. Titled above picture.
  f.27 Manly Beach. Unsigned. Dated ‘July 13, 1871’ at lower left. Titled at lower right.
  f.28 Flat Rock. Unsigned. Dated ‘April 6, 1872’ and titled along right edge.
  f.29 Flat Rock. Unsigned. Undated. Untitled. This appears to be an unfinished version of f.28.
  f.30 [Blank]
  f.31 [Blank]
  f.32 [Blank]
  f.33 [Blank]
  f.34 [Blank]
  f.35 [Blank]
  f.36 [Blank]
  f.37 [Blank]
  f.38 [Blank]
  f.39 [Blank]
  f.40 [Blank]
  f.41 [Blank]
  f.42 [Blank]
  f.43 [Blank]
  f.44 [Blank]
  f.45 [Blank]
  f.46 [Blank]
  f.47 [Notes on the ‘durability of white pigments’ taken from the Encyclopaedia Britannica].
  f.47 verso [View of a ship in a bay]. Unsigned. Undated. Untitled. Note at top of page apparently unrelated to the drawing.
• 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 8
• Signatures / Inscriptions
  
  Label in Sir William Dixon’s hand: “Martens Sketch Book 8” -- cover
• Subject
  Martens, Conrad, 1801-1878--Notebooks, sketchbooks, etc.
  Art, Colonial--Australia.
  
• Topic
  ships
  bays
  houses
  paddle steamers
  bush
  
• Place
  Sydney Harbour (N.S.W.)
  Government House (Sydney, N.S.W.)
  Fort Denison (Sydney, N.S.W.)
  North Head (Port Jackson, N.S.W.)
  Middle Harbour (N.S.W.)
  Fort Macquarie (Sydney, N.S.W.)
  Kissing Point (N.S.W.)
  Coogee (N.S.W.)
  Observatory Hill (Sydney, N.S.W.)
  Wollongong (N.S.W.)
  Kiama (N.S.W.)
  Manly (N.S.W.)
  Flat Rock
  Sydney Heads (N.S.W.)
  
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