* Willmore (A.) after Gill Wesleyan Church, Melbourne {by 1865} Loc? [PR]

Willmore, Arthur (1814-88; English) after Gill, S.T. (1818-80; English/Australian)
Wesleyan Church, Melbourne (1862)
Engraving, 26.5 x 29 cm
Acquired by 1865
Location unknown

As with * Willmore (A.) after Gill Collegiate Grammar School {by 1865} Loc? [PR], this is a provisional identification of a work listed in both NGV 1865 and AR 1870-71 as an anonymous engraving of the Wesley Church in Melbourne.

The church was designed by Joseph Reed and built 1861-70.

[photo: engraving from Victoria Illustrated 1862 (SLV)]

Refs.

NGV 1865, p.41 (Engravings, no.15); also listed in PF under 1868 (acc.no.p.250.41-1); AR 1870-71, p.34: Engravings (framed); not listed in NGV 1894 or 1905

For the work reproduced here, see SLV catalogue: Victoria Illustrated, 2nd.ed., 1862, plate 25