Conrad Martens (1801 - 1878)

PAPE’ETE HARBOUR, TAHITI, 1856

watercolour on paper

31.0 x 46.0 cm

signed, inscribed and dated lower right: C Martens / Sydney 1856
bears inscription lower left: TAHEITA

The Maher Family, Sydney
Thence by descent
Private collection, Sydney

Lindsay, L., Conrad Martens: The Man And His Art, Angus and Robertson, 1968, pl. 34 (illus., as 'Papeete Harbour, Tahiti', 1835)

Part of Papieti Harbour, Island of Tahiti Feby 27 1835, State Library of New South Wales, call no. PXC 294 f.11
In 1920 a library officer noted that a watercolour based on this drawing was in the possession of Mrs Odillo Maher.