• Title
  The funeral of Rear Admiral Phillip Parker King, 1856 / Conrad Martens
• Creator
  Conrad Martens, 1801-1878
• Call number
  ML 994
  V/233
  
• Level of description
  fonds
• Date
  
  1856
• Type of material
  Graphic Materials, Watercolours
• Reference code
  447594
• Issue Copy
  Digitised
• Physical Description
  1 drawing - watercolour and pencil with bodycolour, gum arabic and scraping-out - 43.5 x 64 cm. inside frame 69.5 x 89.5 cm.
  
• Scope and Content
  ML 994
  The funeral of Rear Admiral Phillip Parker King, 1856 / Conrad Martens
  
  V/233
  Backing board with inscription "The Funeral of Rear Admiral Philip Parker King died 26th Feb 1856" at top right and printed paper framer's label "E.[dwin] Baldwin, 16 O'Connell Street [Sydney]" at centre.
• Access Conditions
  
  Access via appointment - Applies to ML 994
• Copying Conditions
  Out of copyright: Creator died before 1955
  Please acknowledge:: Mitchell Library, State Library of New South Wales
• General note
  
  Signed and dated lower right "C. Martens 1856"
  
  Entry in Martens' Account book, dated 24 Apr 1856: "Funeral procession of Admiral King Mrs. King 21[pounds].-"; 30 May 1856 "Copy of the above Mrs. King 15[pounds].15.0". The other version of this picture was lent to the National Library of Australia for some years until sold by a member of the King family at Sotheby's, Sydney, 1987. It is now in a private collection, illustrated in Conrad Martens : on the Beagle and in Australia / Susanna de Vries-Evans. Collectors ed. Chapel Hill, [Qld.] : Pandanus Press, 1993, pl.XXII, given as Mitchell Library.
  
  Reference:
  Conrad Martens : life & art / Elizabeth Ellis. Sydney : State Library of New South Wales Press, 1994, p.178. See this reference also for Martens' preliminary drawings, correspondence and notebook entries relating to King's funeral
  Digital order no:Album ID : 874509
• Signatures / Inscriptions
  
  "The Funeral of Rear-Admiral Phillip Parker King died 26th Feb. 1856" -- inscribed on reverse in ink, and on backing board upper right with same wording
• Name
  King, Phillip Parker, 1791-1856
  
• Subject
  Adult Males
  
• Topic
  colonial art
  funerals
  harbours
  jolly-boats
  sailing ships
  watercolours
  
• Place
  Dawes' Battery (Sydney, N.S.W.)
  Sydney Harbour (N.S.W.)
  
• Exhibited in
  
  Journeys through Landscapes - Conrad Martens Life & Art - State Library of New South Wales (21 November, 1994 - 3 July, 1995)
  Flesh & Blood: Family Connections in Sydney 1788-1998 - Museum of Sydney (November, 1998 - February, 1999)
  The Artist and the patron - Art Gallery of New South Wales (February, 1988 - May, 1988)
  ONE hundred : celebrating the Mitchell Library centenary - State Library of New South Wales (March, 2010 - June, 2010)

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