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[Sydney from near Bellevue Hill, 1858] / by Conrad Martens
[Sydney from near Bellevue Hill, 1858] / by Conrad Martens
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Full title
Author / Creator
Date
1858
Call Numbers
XV*/Sp Coll/Martens/2
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Reference Code
Physical Description
Contents
Drawings - 46 x 66 cm. - 1 watercolour and pencil with bodycolour and gum arabic
Other Descriptions
Level of description
Fonds
Access and use
Copying Conditions
Out of copyright : Artist died before 1955
Please acknowledge: : Mitchell Library, State Library of New South Wales
Issue Copy
Digitised
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Scope and Contents
Contents
`Fort Denison is shown as complete, thus dating the picture after early 1857, see Kerr, Fort Denison, pp.27-9. The view is from the lower slopes of Bellevue Hill, with Carthona on the left and Lindsay to its right. Garden Island is above Darling Point and Clark Island centre right'
Alternative Titles
Full title
[Sydney from near Bellevue Hill, 1858] / by Conrad Martens
Variant title
Sydney Harbour from Point Piper
Authors, Artists and Contributors
Author / Creator
Notes
General note
No title or date on work. Title and information from Conrad Martens: life and art / Elizabeth Ellis, 1994, p.178
Library catalogue title: Sydney from Point Piper from former frame label, date given as 1866 (no trace of date on work or corresponding entry for 1866 in Account book)
Account book, 3 Feb. 1858 `Sydney from near Bellevue? P.Leslie...
Signature / Inscriptions
Signature in lower left hand corner
Contextual Information
Source
Bequeathed by D.S. MItchell, 1907
Transferred from ML 84 in July 1993
Identifiers
Primary Identifiers
Call Numbers
XV*/Sp Coll/Martens/2
Record Identifier
9yM6lbz9
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https://devfeature-collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/9yM6lbz9
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Reference code
457240
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