Chalmers Church Adelaide

Title

Chalmers Church Adelaide

Date made

1856

Place made

Australasia, Australia, South Australia, Adelaide View on map Close map

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Category

Print

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

Last Updated

07 Jan 2013