City of Adelaide S.A. looking south-east.
Primary Artist
Samuel Calvert (1828–1913)
Title
City of Adelaide S.A. looking south-east.
Source
Commentator'. [Monthly almanac and illustrated commentator?], April 1850.
Page or Plate number
supplement
Reference
Ferguson (1941-69, 1986),
Date made
1850
Place made
Australia, Australia, South Australia, Adelaide View on map Close map
Category
Print type
planographic
Technique
chalk lithograph, printed in colour inks, from two stones (image in black ink, tint-stone in tan ink); hand-coloured at a later date.
Matrix size
22.6 x 33.6 cm (printed image)
Support
white wove paper
Support size
30.0 x 42.5 cm (sheet)
State
published state
Impression
undesignated impression
Edition information
print run unknown
Production notes
The City of Adelaide looking S.A. looking south-east, a lithograph by Samuel Calvert, was first issued as a free supplement to subscribers of the Monthly Almanac and Illustrated Commentator, of April 1850. Drawn from nature and lithographed by Calvert, it was probably printed by Penman & Galbraith. An advertisement notes that it was printed on ‘fine drawing paper’ 18 x 12 inches [about 46.0 x 30.5 cm]. Non-subscribers could purchase an impression for 2s 6d. A related watercolour by Calvert is in the collection of the Art Gallery of South Australia (772HP13).
Inscriptions or device by artist or designated agent
Printed lower left below image in black ink, 'Drawn from Nature by S.C.',
Printed lower centre below image in black ink, 'CITY OF ADELAIDE S.A. / LOOKING SOUTH-EAST / From West end of Hindley Street - November 1849.'
Subject description
A view of Adelaide taken from along the Karrawirra Parri / River Torrens where a group of Aboriginal people are fishing and settlers are loading building materials. The cattle yards on the right was at the north western end of the city opposite the Newmarket Hotel.
Collection
National Gallery of Australia
IRN
150479
Accession number
2006.39
Accession method
Purchase
Meeting
Meeting 4, 2005/2006 (2006-02-22)
Provenance
Purchased by the National Gallery of Australia, from the Antique Print Room, Sydney, 2007.
Credit line
Purchased 2006
Subject category
Australia, Art period: Colonial, South Australia
Country of context
Australia
Creators
Calvert, Samuel. | (1828–1913) Australian | English | Male | artist