View from the residence (Wotonga) of Travers looking west / C. Martens
View from the residence (Wotonga) of Travers looking west / C. Martens
About this item
Full title
Author / Creator
Date
probably 1852
Call Numbers
V*/Sp Coll/Martens/51
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 west / C. Martens
Variant title
Previous title 'Sydney from Kirribilli'
Authors, Artists and Contributors
Author / Creator
Notes
General note
A similar watercolour titled 'View from the Residence (Wotonga) of Travers looking west’, 30.7 x 43.4 cm. is located at DGD 12, f. 10.
Transferred from ML 77 in Nov. 1993
Frame at F336
Signature / Inscriptions
Signed C. Martens at lower right
Date note
Untitled and undated. Title from a similar sketch in reproduced in Lindsay, L. 'Conrad Martens’, Sydney : A&R, 1920’, pl.53, ML Q759.29/M
Object History
“Illustrated in Painted Panorama, p.69, cat no.32 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...
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/51
Record Identifier
Y0KD66V1
Permalink
https://devfeature-collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/Y0KD66V1
Other Identifiers
Reference code
825962
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