Title

Chalmers Church Adelaide

Date made

1856

Category

Print

Print type

planographic

Technique

lithograph, printed in black ink, from one stone

Text printed from matrix

Printed below image, 'CHALMERS CHURCH / ADELAIDE / PENMAN AND GALBRIATH LITHOG. FREEMAN STREET.' Printed signature lower right within image, 'AS [in monogram]'.

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].

Subject categories

Architecture | Australia, Art period: Colonial, South Australia

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.

Country of context

Australia

Legacy id

212652

Creators

SCHRAMM, Alexander | (1813–1864) Australian | German | Male | lithographer