• Title
  Volume 01: Conrad Martens sketches from Canterbury, Terrigal, Upper Hunter, Lithgow Valley and Camden, 1860-1872
• Call number
  PXD 307/Vol. 1
  
• Level of description
  item
• Date
  
  1860-1872
• Type of material
  Graphic Materials, Drawings
• Reference code
  1269526
• Issue Copy
  Digitised
• Physical Description
  10 drawings - various sizes (approx. 28 x 46 cm.) in portfolio 42 x 58 cm. - pencil
  
• Scope and Content
  f.1 Canterbury House, the seat of Mr Arthur Jeffreys. 1860. Pencil sketch. 11¼ x 18 1/8. Unsigned. Titled and dated in pencil lower right corner 'The Seat of - Jeffries sic Esq Canterbury. Sept 26th 1860'. In pencil along upper edge '-N-'
  
  f.2 Skillion, Terrigal. 1861. Pencil sketch. 11¼" x 17¾" Unsigned. Untitled. Note in pencil lower right corner 'Painted for the London Exhibition of all Nations. 1861'
  
  f.3 Mount Wingen. 1862. Pencil sketch. 10 7/4" x 17 7/8". Unsigned. Titled and dated lower right corner "Mount Wingen May 23. 1862". In pencil along upper edge 'S' and pencil notes on colours in centre of view
  
  f.4 Cressfield. 1862. Pencil sketch. 10¼" x 15¼" Unsigned. Titled and dated in pencil lower right corner 'Cressfield May 27. 1862'. On verso there is an unfinished pencil sketch showing the roof of a house, top of a tree and a mountain. Untitled, unsigned and undated
  
  f.5 Invermien from the Holsworthy Downs. 1862. Pencil sketch. 10 7/8" x 18". Unsigned. Titled and dated in pencil lower left corner 'Invermien June 2 1862. From Holsworthy Downs.' In pencil along upper edge 'S'
  
  f.6 View from Bengalla, near Muswellbrook. 1862. Pencil sketch. 10" x 18". Unsigned. Titled and dated in pencil lower right corner 'View from Bengalla - near MusswelBrook [sic] June.13.1862'. In pencil along upper edge of view 'N E' and 'B[---?]Mountain. 'smoke' is written in pencil along horizon
  
  f.7 Nigoa, near Muswellbrook, owned by John Cox, Esquire. [1862]. Pencil sketch. 10¾" x 18". Unsigned. Titled in pencil lower right corner "Nigoa near Musswell Brook [sic] John Cox. Esquire June 15th". The date '1862' added in pencil in a different hand
  
  f.8 Brownlow Hill. 1871. Pencil sketch. 11 1/8" x 18 3/8". Unsigned. Titled and dated in pencil lower right corner 'Brownlow Hill Novr 1. 1871' Pencil note along lower edge 'Walls Cream Color sic' and on upper edge 'N'
  
  f.9 Lithgow Valley. 1872. Pencil sketch. 11¼" x 18¼". Unsigned. Titled and dated in pencil lower right corner 'Lithgow Valley April 13 1872'. Pencil notes along upper edge 'N W' and 'E'
  
  f.10 Lithgow Valley showing the Zig Zag Railway. 1872. Pencil sketch 11 18" x 17 3/8". Unsigned. Titled and dated lower right corner in pencil 'Lithgow Valley May 15 1872. Pencil notes along upper edge 'S' with 'W' crossed out
• Copying Conditions
  Out of copyright: Creator died before 1955
  Please acknowledge:: Mitchell Library, State Library of New South Wales
• Description source
  
  Descriptive information and imperial measurements transferred from detailed contents list accompanying the collection. Volume title supplied by cataloguer
• General note
  
  Folios 1, 7 exhibited at Muswellbrook Regional Gallery, Sept-Oct 1995
  
  f. 10 exhibited at Mudgee Shire Council, Stables Gallery, May-June 1997
  Digital order no:Album ID : 1269558
• Topic
  landscapes (views)
  bush
  trees
  houses
  mountains
  farms
  headlands
  valleys
  railways
  
• Place
  Lithgow (N.S.W.)
  Great Zig Zag Railway (Lithgow, N.S.W.)
  Wingen, Mount (N.S.W.)
  Canterbury House (Ashfield, N.S.W.)
  Skillion, The (Terrigal, N.S.W.)
  Cressfield (residence : Parkville, N.S.W.)
  Invermien (Scone, N.S.W.)
  Bengalla (N.S.W.)
  Nigoa Station (Muswellbrook, N.S.W.)
  Brownlow Hill (Cobbitty, N.S.W.)
  
• Exhibited in
  
  Journeys through Landscapes - Conrad Martens Life & Art
• Open Rosetta viewer
  IE1203511

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