Chalmers Church Adelaide
Title
Date made
1856
Place made
Australasia, Australia, South Australia, Adelaide View on map Close map
Category
Print type
planographic
Technique
lithograph, printed in black ink, from one stone
Support
thin smooth off-white wove paper laid down on thin smooth cream wove paper
Manufacturers mark
no manufacturer's mark
State
published state
Impression
undesignated impression as issued
Edition information
print run unknown
Production notes
The lithograph by Alexander Schramm, 'Chalmers Church Adelaide', is directly derived from a watercolour of the same subject by S.T. Gill. The watercolour offered in the 'Annual collectors exhibition' by Trevor Bussell Gallery, Sydney, October/November 1985, number 3, is inscribed 'Messrs Brown & English, Architects' and 'presented to Mr. & Mrs. Gardiner as a memento of the 8th May 1851 by H.B. Brown'. Gill has initialed the watercolour and dated it 1851. [RB 2011].
Inscriptions or device by artist or designated agent
No inscriptions.
Subject description
A view of Chalmers Free Church (later Scots Church), on North Terrace, Adelaide, which opened on 6 July 1851. This 1856 lithograph was probably issued to support fund-raising for the erection of the spire which was finished in 1858. The view is characterised by the addition of a number of elderly gentlemen (one on a horse) and two dogs scraping in the foreground.
IRN
212652
Accession number
2011.1181
Accession method
Purchase
Meeting
Meeting 1, 2011/2012 (2011-08-31)
Provenance
Purchased by the National Gallery of Australia, from the Antique Print Room, Sydney, 2011.
Credit line
Purchased 2011.
Subject categories
Architecture | Australia, Art period: Colonial, South Australia
Country of context
Australia
Creators
SCHRAMM, Alexander | (1813–1864) Australian | German | Male | lithographer