• Title
  Sketchbook, ca. 1851? / by Rebecca Martens and Conrad Martens
• Creator
  Rebecca Martens, 1838-1909
• Call number
  DL PX 33
  
• Level of description
  fonds
• Date
  
  ca. 1851?
• Type of material
  Graphic Materials, Drawings
• Reference code
  845246
• Issue Copy
  Digitised : DL PX 33
  
• Physical Description
  1 sketchbook (28 drawings) - various sizes - pencil
  
• Scope and Content
  28 ff. containing 26 pencil drawings, the last nine being on the versos and upside down in relation to the others.
  
  DL PX 33
  
  f.1 View of a child
  f.2 Illawarra Lilly and Seaforthia
  f.3 Illawarra, a view in the forest
  f.4 View of a window
  f.5 View of Sydney Harbour from the North Shore looking east towards Fort Macquarie
  f.6 No caption
  f.7 Nettle Tree & Cabbage Palms
  f.8 Nettle Tree
  f.9 Tree Fern, Illawarra
  f.10 View of Palm Tree
  f.11 Fig Tree
  f.12 No caption
  f.13 Cabbage Palms
  f.14 View of rock lily or King Orchid
  f.15 View of tree ferns in a forest
  f.16 View of a garden roller
  f.17 Sunrise
  f.18 View of tree ferns in a forest
  f.19 View of tree ferns in a forest
  f.20 verso View of Conrad Martens house, Rockleigh Grange, at Saint Leonards (by Conrad Martens)
  f.21 verso View of Conrad Martens house, Rockleigh Grange, at Saint Leonards
  f.22 verso View in a garden
  f.23 verso View of an unidentified tree
  f.24 verso View in a garden
  f.25 verso View in a garden
  f.26 verso View of trees
  f.27 verso View of interior of a house
  f.28 View of a house door
  
• Copying Conditions
  Out of copyright: Creator died before 1955
  Please acknowledge:: Dixson Library, State Library of New South Wales
• Description source
  
  Information transferred from Pictures Card Catalogue as part of the eRecords Project, 2008-2009.
• General note
  
  Outside covers missing.
  
  Transferred from Spencer list 9 P to DL PX 32 June 1967.
  Transferred from DL PX 32 to DL PX 33 January 1970.
• Signatures / Inscriptions
  
  In slipcase lettered 'Sketch/Book/-/Conrad Martens'.
• Attributions / conjectures
  
  Twenty five of the drawings have been attributed by the Dixson Library to Rebecca Martens after comparing them with others by her in the Dixson Library and because eight of them have titles written in her hand.
• Date note
  
  One (f. 20) is in the style of Conrad Martens, and is dated 'Feb 28th 1851' by him. The remainder have been dated ca. 1851 from this.
• Creator/Author/Artist
  Martens, Conrad, 1801-1878
  
• Subject
  Art, Colonial--New South Wales.
  children
  
• Topic
  portraits
  botany
  forests
  views
  landscapes (artwork)
  sketches
  harbours
  gardens
  nettle trees
  cabbage tree palms
  palm trees
  fig trees
  tree ferns
  houses
  interiors (buildings)
  
• Place
  Illawarra District (N.S.W.)
  Sydney Harbour (N.S.W.)
  Pittwater (N.S.W.)
  Rockleigh Grange (Residence : North Sydney, N.S.W.)
  
• Open Rosetta viewer
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