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[View of Parramatta], 1838 / drawn by C. Martens

[View of Parramatta], 1838 / drawn by C. Martens

Full title: [View of Parramatta], 1838 / drawn by C. Martens

Author/creator: Martens, Conrad, 1801-1878.

Date: 1838.

Call Numbers: DL Pg 15

Record Identifier: 1xqZQQwY

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Formats: Pictures, Watercolours

Contents: 1 watercolour - 45 x 66 cm - pencil with bodycolour, gum arabic and scraping-out

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Notes: Related account book entries, 1837-39: 10 Oct. 1837. Capt. P.P King £12.12.0’; 12 Nov. 1838 … Rob Mackenzie Esq £15.15.0, now in the NGV’; 1 Jan 1839 … Capt. Wright £15.15.0; 4 Apr. 1839 … L. Campbell Esq. £15.15.0’. Pencil drawing, `View of Parramatta Sep. 25/1837, 20 x 30 cm., illustrated in Lindsay, L. `Conrad Martens’, Sydney : A&R, 1920 1920, pl.XLVI, presented by Col. A.E. Knox, Sydney, Feb.1960 PXC 971, f.2. Illustrated in Jervis, J. `The cradle of the city of Australia: a history of Parramatta, Parramatta City Council, 1961, frontis. and Nicholas, L.,`Charles Darwin in Australia’, Cambridge University Press, 1989, p.26 Transferred from 247 P in July 1967 to DL 28 then to DL Pg 15 in Feb. 1980 Digital order no:a1528447

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    [View of Parramatta], 1838 / drawn by C. Martens

    Full title

    [View of Parramatta], 1838 / drawn by C. Martens

    Author / Creator

    Martens, Conrad, 1801-1878

    Date

    1838

    Call Numbers

    DL Pg 15

    Record Identifier

    1xqZQQwY

    Formats

    Pictures and Watercolours

    — Physical Description

    Contents

    1 watercolour - 45 x 66 cm - pencil with bodycolour, gum arabic and scraping-out

    — Other Descriptions

    Level of description

    Fonds

    Access and use

    Copying Conditions

    Out of copyright : Creator died before 1955

    Please acknowledge: : Dixson Library, State Library of New South Wales

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    Subjects

    Subjects and topics

    Parramatta River (N.S.W.)--Pictorial works Parramatta (N.S.W.)--Pictorial works Commissariat Store (Parramatta, N.S.W.) watercolours harbours official buildings city & town views Art, Colonial--Australia

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    — SCOPE AND CONTENTS

    Contents

    “The view is from the grounds of Hannibal Hawkins Macarthur’s new house, Vineyard, designed by John Verge. The jetty and landing place are in the foreground. Jervis notes that the three storey building, centre is the Commissariat Store in George Street. In 1836 the wall around it was erected as part of plans to convert it to a permanent military ba...

    — ALTERNATIVE TITLES

    Full title

    [View of Parramatta], 1838 / drawn by C. Martens

    Variant title

    Previously titled `Parramatta

    — AUTHORS, ARTISTS AND CONTRIBUTORS

    Author / Creator

    — NOTES

    General note

    ...

    Signature / Inscriptions

    Signed and dated lower right `C. Martens 1838’

    Conservation note

    This work was damaged when on loan in the early 1970s and afterwards heavily restored.

    Published information

    Conrad Martens: life and art / Elizabeth Ellis. Sydney : State Library of New South Wales Press, 1994

    — CONTEXTUAL INFORMATION

    Source

    Bequeathed by Sir William Dixson, 1952

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    Charles Darwin Down Under 1836

    Memory of Trees

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    DL Pg 15

    Record Identifier

    1xqZQQwY

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    825925

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