• Title
  View from the residence (Wotonga) of Travers looking south-east / C. Martens
• Creator
  Conrad Martens, 1801-1878
• Call number
  V*/Sp Coll/Martens/54
  
• Level of description
  fonds
• Date
  
  1854
• Type of material
  Graphic Materials, Watercolours
• Reference code
  825967
• Physical Description
  1 drawing - 30.0 x 42.6 cm - watercolour
  
• Collection history
  “This was one of four pictures purchased by J.H Challis, 25-15 Feb. 1854 for 6 guineas each. Three replicate the 1852-53 commissions for Lloyd. Challis sold his pictures to H.S. Russell and they were in turn acquired by Edward Hill of Sydney at the sale of Russell’s effects on 25th July 1867, see Martens Notebook 3, ZB 197, f.16. Hill’s niece, Edith bequeathed them to the Mitchell Library in Jan. 1953” -- Conrad Martens: life and art / Elizabeth Ellis, 1994, p.170-171
• Copying Conditions
  Out of copyright:
  Please acknowledge:: Mitchell Library, State Library of New South Wales
• Published Information
  Conrad Martens: life and art / Elizabeth Ellis¶Sydney : State Library of New South Wales Press, 1994
• Variant title
  
  Previous title 'Sydney Harbour from Kirribilli'
• General note
  
  A similar watercolour titled 'View from the Residence (Wotonga) looking south-east’, 31.3 x 43.3 cm. is located at DGD 10, f.12. A related pencil sketch untitled, illustrated in Lindsay, 1920, pl. LVII is located at DG*D18, f.11
  
  Transferred from ML 154 in Nov. 1993
  
  Frame at F 339
• Signatures / Inscriptions
  
  Signed and dated 'C. Martens, 1854’ at lower left
• Date note
  
  Untitled.
• Subject
  Art, Colonial--Australia.
  
• Topic
  watercolours
  city & town views
  harbours
  official residences
  fortifications
  
• Place
  Sydney Harbour (N.S.W.)
  Admiralty House (Kirribilli, N.S.W.)
  Kirribilli (N.S.W.)
  Fort Philip (Observatory Hill, Sydney, N.S.W.)
  
• Open Rosetta viewer
  IE19565414

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