• Title
  [View of the House at Canterbury, 1860] / drawn by C. Martens
• Creator
  Conrad Martens, 1801-1878
• Call number
  XV*/Sp Coll/Martens/1
  
• Level of description
  fonds
• Date
  
  1860
• Type of material
  Graphic Materials, Watercolours
• Reference code
  826004
• Issue Copy
  Digitised
• Physical Description
  1 watercolour - 45.7 x 65.7 cm. - pencil with bodycolour and gum arabic
  
• Scope and Content
  “The Canterbury estate, South Ashfield was acquired by Robert Campbell of Wharf House in 1803 from William Cox. Arthur Jeffreys married Sarah, a daughter of Robert and Sophia Campbell. Canterbury House, formerly at George’s River Road, Canterbury, was built c.1850 by Edmund Blacket for Jeffreys. It was demolished in 1928 by its then owners, the Presbyterian Church, for residential subdivision. The Miss Campbell who commissioned the watercolour was Sophia Ives Campbell, Sara Jeffreys’ sister …” -- Conrad Martens: life and art / Elizabeth Ellis, 1994, p.180
• Copying Conditions
  Out of copyright: Creator died before 1955
  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 `Old Canterbury House'
• General note
  
  Account book, 17 Oct. 1860 `View of the house at Canterbury Miss Campbell £21.0.0
  Pencil drawing, `The seat of Jeffires [sic] Esq. Canterbury Sept. 26th 1860’, 28.5 x 45.6 cm., PXD 307, vol.1, f.1.
  
  Other pencil drawings of Canterbury are: `Seat of Jeffries [sic] Esq. at Canterbury Sept. 27th. 1860’, PXC 299, f.12; `Seat of Jeffries [sic] Esq. at Canterbury’ Sept. 27th. 1860’, PXC 297, f.8; `Farm at Canterbury Jefferys [sic] Esq.’ Sept. 27th/60, PXC 297, f.5; `The Lodge Jeffries [sic] Sept. 27th 1860, PXC 970, f.15; `St Paul’s Canterbury Sep.16 1865’, PXC 295, f.55. Watercolours after some of these are held privately.
  Digital order no:a9468001
• Subject
  Art, Colonial--Australia.
  
• Topic
  watercolours
  houses
  
• Place
  Canterbury House (Ashfield, N.S.W.)
  
• Exhibited in
  
  Journeys through Landscapes - Conrad Martens Life & Art
• Open Rosetta viewer
  IE3234659

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