View from the residence (Wotonga) of Travers looking south-west / C. Martens
View from the residence (Wotonga) of Travers looking south-west / C. Martens
About this item
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Author / Creator
Date
probably 1852
Call Numbers
V*/Sp Coll/Martens/53
Record Identifier
Reference Code
Physical Description
Contents
1 drawing - 29.0 x 44.5 cm - watercolour and pencil
Other Descriptions
Level of description
Fonds
Access and use
Copying Conditions
Out of copyright
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Alternative Titles
Full title
View from the residence (Wotonga) of Travers looking south-west / C. Martens
Variant title
Previous title `Dawes Point, Sydney'
Authors, Artists and Contributors
Author / Creator
Notes
General note
A similar watercolour titled `View from the Residence (Wotonga) looking south-west’, 31.1 x 43.3 cm. is located at DGD 10, f.12.
Frame at F337
Transferred from ML 176 in Nov. 1993
Signature / Inscriptions
Signed C. Martens at lower right
Date note
Untitled and undated. Date from a similar pencil sketch dated `Sept. 20th 1852’ and titled `From the residence of Ths Lloy [sic] Esq of North Shore’, PXC 297, f.3
Object History
“This was one of four pictures purchased by J.H Challis, 25-15 Feb. 1854 for 6 guineas each. Three replicate the 1852-53 commissions for Lloyd. Challis sold his pictures to H.S. Russell and they were in turn acquired by Edward Hill of Sydney at the sale of Russell’s effects on 25th July 1867, see Martens Notebook 3, ZB 197, f.16. Hill’s niece, Edit...
Published information
Conrad Martens: life and art / Elizabeth Ellis¶Sydney : State Library of New South Wales Press, 1994
Contextual Information
Source
Bequeathed by Miss Edith Hill, Jan. 1953
Identifiers
Primary Identifiers
Call Numbers
V*/Sp Coll/Martens/53
Record Identifier
1kVdwwxn
Permalink
https://devfeature-collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/1kVdwwxn
Other Identifiers
Reference code
825966
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