Shepherd Wesley Church, Melbourne {by 1870} SLV [PR]

Shepherd, Richard (1825-85; English/Australian)
Wesley Church, Melbourne (c.1868)
Hand-coloured lithograph, 56.7 x 41.4 cm (image)
Presented by Joseph Reed, by 1870
State Library of Victoria (H2085)

This print was presented by the architect of the Wesley Church (also the principal architect of the first Melbourne Public Library buildings). See also * Willmore (A.) after Gill Wesleyan Church, Melbourne {by 1865} Loc? [PR].

Shepherd, who arrived in Melbourne in 1853, produced various lithographs, including a series of maps for the Geological Survey of Victoria.

Refs.

AR 1870-71, p.35; not listed in NGV 1894 or 1905

SLV catalogue: details as noted above; with a mediocre reproduction (not reproduced here)

For Shepherd, see biographical details noted under SLV H2006.135/247 (an 1866 painting by him)