[Abercrombie Caves] / C. Martens

DG XV*/Sp Coll/Martens/2

fonds

1872

Graphic Materials, Watercolours

825914

1 drawing - 45.8 x 66.8 cm - watercolour, pencil with bodycolour, gum arabic and scraping-out on original support

Out of copyright:
Please acknowledge:: Dixson Galleries, State Library of New South Wales

Conrad Martens: life and art / Elizabeth Ellis¶Sydney : State Library of New South Wales Press, 1994

Previously titled 'Wombeyan Caves' from former library mount

Originally commissioned by Sydney merchant, S.A. Joseph who owned several late works by Martens. 'Notebook 3, B197, f.25, 28 Aug. 1873 'Sale of pictures at the house of S.A. Joseph. Two of my drawings bought in by himself at 25 guineas’. Samuel Aaron Joseph was a Sydney merchant'

Account book, 20 Apr. 1872 'Abercrombie Cave. 24 x 18 [inches]. Mr [Samuel Aaron] Joseph 20 gu[inea]s'.
Pencil drawings:
View of South Entrance May 23-1843. Burrangalong Caves on the Abercrombie River’, 31.4 x 47 cm., presented by Sir William Dixson, 1951, DG*D 18, f.6; no title, 7.2 x 11.5 cm., probably drawn on the Caves visit, May 1843, bequeathed by Sir William Dixson, 1952, DLPX 19, f.32

This watercolour was exhibited at the Metropolitan INtercolonial Exhibition, Sydney, April 1872 and the National Art Gallery of New South Wales Exhibition of 1897.

Frame filed at F243

Transferred from DG 168 in Dec. 1985

Signed and dated 'C. Martens, 1872' at lower left