Title

Chalmers Church Adelaide

Date made

1856

Place made

Tarntanya / Adelaide, South Australia, Australia View on map Close map

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

Last Updated

20 Nov 2025