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

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

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)

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

Sydney from St Leonards Novr. 1841, oil on canvas, 47.0 x 65.6 cm, in the collection of the State Library of New South Wales, Sydney
Another example of this print is held in the collection of the Mitchell Library, State Library of New South Wales, Sydney