View from the residence (Wotonga) of Travers looking south-east / C. Martens
View from the residence (Wotonga) of Travers looking south-east / C. Martens
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Full title
Author / Creator
Date
1854
Call Numbers
V*/Sp Coll/Martens/54
Record Identifier
Reference Code
Physical Description
Contents
1 drawing - 30.0 x 42.6 cm - watercolour
Other Descriptions
Level of description
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Copying Conditions
Out of copyright
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Alternative Titles
Full title
View from the residence (Wotonga) of Travers looking south-east / C. Martens
Variant title
Previous title 'Sydney Harbour from Kirribilli'
Authors, Artists and Contributors
Author / Creator
Notes
General note
A similar watercolour titled 'View from the Residence (Wotonga) looking south-east’, 31.3 x 43.3 cm. is located at DGD 10, f.12. A related pencil sketch untitled, illustrated in Lindsay, 1920, pl. LVII is located at DG*D18, f.11
Transferred from ML 154 in Nov. 1993
Frame at F 339
Signature / Inscriptions
Signed and dated 'C. Martens, 1854’ at lower left
Date note
Untitled.
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/54
Record Identifier
n5lV5GL9
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https://devfeature-collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/n5lV5GL9
Other Identifiers
Reference code
825967
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