• Title
  Blue Gum. N.S.W. 1843 / drawn by C. Martens
• Creator
  Conrad Martens, 1801-1878
• Call number
  DG SV*/Sp Coll/Martens/4
  
• Level of description
  fonds
• Date
  
  1843
• Type of material
  Graphic Materials, Watercolours
• Reference code
  825999
• Physical Description
  1 watercolour - 28.7 x 20.3 cm - pencil with bodycolour and scraping-out
  
• Copying Conditions
  Out of copyright: Creator died before 1955
  Please acknowledge:: Dixson Galleries, State Library of New South Wales
• Published Information
  Conrad Martens: life and art / Elizabeth Ellis¶Sydney : State Library of New South Wales Press, 1994
• Description source
  
  Title inscribed lower right
• General note
  
  Pencil drawing: `Blue gum tree … Dunheved May 14-[18]35’, 27.7 x 19 cm. PX*D 307, vol. 1, f.1. “A similar sketch in reverse was issued as a lithograph, `Blue Gum Tree, Eucalyptus’, in Sketches in the Environs of Sydney … set 1, no.2, pl.3. Martens gave the title `Blue Gum trees. Bathurst Road’ in his list of lithographs, DLMS 142, f.54”
  
  Illustrated in Nicholas, F.W & J.M, `Charles Darwin in Australia’. Cambridge University Press, 1989, p.29
  Digital order no:a1528607
• Signatures / Inscriptions
  
  Signed and dated lower left `C. Martens 1843’
• Subject
  Art, Colonial--Australia.
  
• Topic
  watercolours
  blue gums (trees)
  unsealed roads
  
• Exhibited in
  
  Journeys through Landscapes - Conrad Martens Life & Art
• Open Rosetta viewer
  IE3235434

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