VIEW OF SYDNEY FROM ST. LEONARDS, 1842 (also known as ‘SYDNEY FROM THE NORTH SHORE’) printed 1843

Important Australian + International Fine Art
Sydney
28 August 2019
78

CONRAD MARTENS

(1801 – 1878)
VIEW OF SYDNEY FROM ST. LEONARDS, 1842 (also known as ‘SYDNEY FROM THE NORTH SHORE’) printed 1843

hand-coloured lithograph

26.5 x 49.5 cm

signed and dated in image lower left: C. Martens 1842
dated and inscribed lower right: Sydney from the North Shore, 1842

Estimate: 
$4,000 – 6,000
Sold for $6,710 (inc. BP) in Auction 58 - 28 August 2019, Sydney
Provenance

Private collection
Ken and Joan Plomley Collection of Modernist Art, Melbourne

Exhibited

Autumn Exhibition 1974, Joseph Brown Gallery, Melbourne, 18 March – 1 April 1974, cat. 4 (another example)
Conrad Martens Centenary Exhibition, S.H. Ervin Museum and Art Gallery, Sydney, 24 May – 23 July 1978, cat. 45 (another example)

Literature

Thomas, D., Outlines of Australian Art. The Joseph Brown Collection, Macmillan, Melbourne, third edition, 1989, cat. 20 (illus., another example, unpaginated), p. 58
de Vries-Evans, S., Conrad Martens on the Beagle and in Australia, Pandanus Press, Brisbane, 1993, p. 139
Ellis, E., Conrad Martens Life and Art, State Library of New South Wales, Sydney, 1994, pp. 51 (illus., another example), 160, 198