Photographs of sketches taken on board H.M.S. Beagle / Conrad Martens

PXB 78

fonds

1832-1835

Graphic Materials, Photographs

845966

32 photographs (1 folder) - 27 x 24 cm - black and white

32 black and white photos of watercolour sketches.

1. Photograph of contents list (PXB 78/p.F.1)
2. Near Valparaiso (PXB 78/p.F.2)
3. A Fuegian (PXB 78/p.F.3)
4. Monte Video (PXB 78/p.F.4)
5. Chiloe (PXB 78/p.F.5)
6. Chiloe (PXB 78/p.F.6)
7. View taken up the River from Port Desire off the coast of Patagonia. (PXB 78/p.F.7)
8. Upper part of Port Desire Inlet. (PXB 78/p.F.8)
9. Chiloe (PXB 78/p.F.9)
10. Chiloe (PXB 78/p.F.10)
11. Port Famine, Tierra del Fuego (PXB 78/p.F.11)
12. Tierra del Fuego (PXB 78/p.F.12)
13. Tierra del Fuego (PXB 78/p.F.13)
14. Fuegians (PXB 78/p.F.14)
15. Tierra del Fuego (PXB 78/p.F.15)
16. Mount St. Felipe - Port Famine (PXB 78/p.F.16)
17. Chiloe West Coast South America. (PXB 78/p.F.17)
18. Britannia Rock. Port Desire East Coast, Patagonia (PXB 78/p.F.18)
19. The Bivuack [ sic ] (PXB 78/p.F.19)
20. Britannia Rock. East Coast, Patagonia. (PXB 78/p.F.20)
21. Tierra del Fuego. (PXB 78/p.F.21)
22. West side, Straits of Magalhaens, Patagonia (PXB 78/p.F.22)
23. Banks of Santa Cruz. Distant view of the Andes. (PXB 78/p.F.23)
24. Banks of Santa Cruz, Patagonia. (PXB 78/p.F.24)
25. The course of the river - looking down 21 miles from the mouth. (PXB 78/p.F.25)
26. The Adventure off Port Desire. (PXB 78/p.F.26)
27. River Santa Cruz, Patagonia. (PXB 78/p.F.27)
28. E[ast] Coast of Patagonia - River Santa Cruz - sketched 131 miles from the mouth (PXB 78/p.F.28)
29. Settlement at Port Louis (PXB 78/p.F.29)
30. Cape Froward from Port St Antonio. (PXB 78/p.F.30)
31. Tahiti. Papeete. (PXB 78/p.F.31)
32. Papeete & Queen Pomare's House. (PXB 78/p.F.32)

Out of copyright:
Please acknowledge:: Mitchell Library, State Library of New South Wales
Approval for reproduction required: f.32 not to be reproduced without permission of owner.

Contents list available in the Mitchell Library Reading Room -

Copied in 1971 from the originals in the possession of Mark Smythm Esquire.

Information transferred from Pictures Card Catalogue as part of the eRecords Project, 2008-2009.

Keyword subjects:
Montevideo (Uruguay)

None of the original paintings are signed, five are dated and seven are titled. The untitled sketches have been titled from the contents list filed with folio 1 of the collection. There are three drawings marked on the contents list as missing, folios 16, 21, and 32. Three additional drawings, folios 30, 31 and 32 are not marked on the contents list, these appear, after comparison with others in the collection to be the work of two unknown artists.