After Conrad MARTENS Early Sydney Scene Unsigned Text inscribed to works verso in a later hand reads: 'Painted from a painting by/Conrad Martens in 1839/close to Bridge and Pitt St/Old Tank Stream/Treasury Building and Pulteney Hotel/Later the Aust[ralian] Club'. W/Clr 11.5x18cm
PROVENANCE: Collection of John Young (Founder of Macquarie Galleries, Sydney); Clarice Thomas, by descent; The Fred and Elinor Wrobel Collection, Sydney (purchased from the above in the 1970s); Estate Late Elinor Wrobel.