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