Artist: Conrad Martens
Date: 1873
Size: 46 x 66 cm
Museum: National Gallery of Victoria (Melbourne, Australia)
Technique: Watercolour
Explorer John Oxley first described the Apsley Falls, New South Wales, in September 1818, writing in his journal that he was ‘lost in astonishment at the sight of this wonderful natural sublimity’ and that ‘it is impossible to form a correct idea of the wild magnificence of the scenery without the pencil of a Salvator. Such a painter would here find an ample field for the exercise of his genius’.By the time Conrad Martens visited the falls in 1852, they were a renowned sight. Martens produced three different paintings of falls on the Apsley during the following two decades. A detailed pencil study, The Apsley at Waterloo, on which the Melbourne view was based, shows that the dramatic rock formations are the real focus of the work. Martens
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