THE LIFE OF CONRAD MARTENS 



be possible to raise anything like fifty pounds at this time for a 

 similar publication. I intend to see what can be done in litho- 

 graphy here ; something that would do to colour might perhaps 

 be got up." 



In 1 854 he saw the necessity of bringing the View up to date, as 

 the city had altered very much in a decade ; and in June of that 

 year he wrote the following interesting letter to his brother Henry, 

 to whom he entrusted the work of overseeing its reproduction : 

 " I have just been making arrangements for the publication of a 

 new lithograph View of Sydney, in partnership with a Mr. Mader, 

 who will undertake to meet all expenses. My drawing is done, 

 and will shortly be sent to the care of Mr. S. A. Donaldson, now 

 in London. He is the principal of a Sydney Mercantile house. 

 Mr. Mader proposes that you shall superintend the engraving, etc., 

 if you are so inclined, and that whatever commission you may 

 think right to charge will be paid to you. The choice or selection 

 of a draughtsman will be left to you, as well as the printer. Mr. 

 Donaldson alone will be requested to find the necessary funds. 

 As I suppose you will have no objection to undertake the job, I 

 will proceed to give a few necessary directions about it. I hope, 

 in the first place, that as you are not restricted in the expense, 

 someone may be found who is more skilful than the Mr. Boyd 

 who made my other lithographic view. The double printing also, 

 I hope, may be better executed. The paper I wish to be exactly 

 similar to that of mine namely, thick imperial, a sample of which 

 will be sent with the drawing. . . . The number of copies is 

 to be 500, but the stone is to be kept till further notice. No 

 impressions are to be left for sale in London. If it turns out well 

 we may get up one or two more in the same way. Once more 

 about the print, as the composition is not good on account of its 

 being too much all in one line. 1 hope the depth of the bays will 

 be particularly attended to, more especially on one over which I 

 have placed a mark / s. It is called Farm Cove, and partly 

 encircles the Botanic Gardens." 



Martens had made one attempt upon copper doubtless with 

 the idea of multiplying saleable views but fear of his mordant and 

 his timidity of line betrayed him. He had chosen a tree fern 



