Primary Artist

S.T. Gill (1818–1880)

Title

Sheet music cover: The 77th galop.

Other titles

The 77th gallop

Date made

1858

Category

Print

Print type

planographic

Technique

lithograph, printed in colour, from two stones

Text printed from matrix

Signed printed lower left within image in black ink, 'S.T.G.'. Printed lower centre within image in black ink, 'SYDNEY. PUBLISHED BY J.R. CLARKE. MUSIC-SELLER. GEORGE ST./ ALLAN & WIGLEY.LITH.PRINTERS.' No date. Titled printed upper centre within image in black ink, 'THE 77TH GALOP'. Inscribed on stone lower right, diagonal 'Botanic Gardens Sydney'.

Matrix size

34.0 x 23.6 cm (printed image)

Edition information

print run unknown

Production notes

This work was noted as 'just published' by J.R. Clarke in September 1858. [Sydney Morning Herald, 8 September 1858, p.5, col.5.]

Subject categories

Australia, Art period: Colonial, New South Wales | Australia, Printed ephemera: Illustrated sheet-music cover

Subject description

Sheet music cover featuring a military band playing in the Royal Botanic Gardens, Sydney with harbour view behind.

Country of context

Australia

Legacy id

187740

Creators

Allan & Wigley. | (1855–1868) Australian | Organisation | printer

J.R. Clarke. | Australian | Organisation | publisher

GILL, S.T. | (1818–1880) Australian | English | Male | artist