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Date: 1860

From: Artist unknown :[Seven drawings featuring various colonial subjects. ca 1860]

Reference: A-457-008-3

Description: Shows a view of St Stephen's Chapel, Parnell, from Judges Bay. Below and to the right of the chapel is Sir William Martin's residence; behind it is probably Attorney-General Swainson's house. Other houses and smaller buildings can be seen towards the water's edge Judges Bay was named for Martin and Swainson, who both resided there On the verso is a pencil drawing of a house with two small outbuildings, unidentified; it is possibly by a different artist Inscriptions: Recto - bottom right - St Stephen's Parnell 1860 [in pencil] Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pencil on laid, watermarked paper, 160 x 305 mm

Date: 1860

By: Hoyte, John Barr Clark, 1835-1913

Reference: A-183-007

Description: Shows Parnell and St Paul's in the background and St. Stephen's Chapel in Judge's Bay in the middle distance. The view is looking west along the Auckland waterfront Compare Hoyte's 'Official Bay' (Ref. no. A-183-002) for a closer view of the area Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Sepia ink & wash 127 x 210 mm

Date: 1860

By: Hoyte, John Barr Clark, 1835-1913

Reference: A-183-006

Description: Shows St Stephen's chapel in Judge's Bay on the right, with North Head and Rangitoto in the background across the Harbour Compare Hoyte's watercolour dated 1869 [Auckland Harbour from Judges Bay], reference number C-052-005. The latter is very similar but taken from slightly further round and does not include St Stephen's Chapel. Both views are taken from the area of the modern Parnell Rose Garden Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Sepia ink & wash 130 x 211 mm

Date: 1860

From: Gold, Charles Emilius 1809-1871 :Sketches by General Gold, 1846 to 1860

By: Bent, Thomas, 1833?-1887; Gold, Charles Emilius, 1809-1871

Reference: A-288-035

Description: A view from the water, Judges Bay, Auckland, looking past a schooner and up the cliffs at the water's edge to the church (St Stephen's Chapel), the house of Judge William Martin and other houses. Fort Britomart is on the cliff-top to the right Identity of the artist with initials T. B. shown to be Thomas Bent from comparison with an identical view in a private collection and with the Pacific watercolours held by the Library. A fellow-officer of Gold's, in whose sketchbook this drawing was adhered. The two men fought together in Taranaki. There is a pencil drawing on the verso that may be the work of Gold or of Bent. It shows a train crossing a railway bridge by a bay ringed with hills, with churches and houses sketched in on the left. It is not an identifiable New Zealand scene. Inscriptions: Recto - bottom left - T. B. Nov 28 1860 [in brushpoint]; Recto - bottom right - Taurarua. Judges Bay. Auckland [in brushpoint] Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour 176 x 251 mm Provenance: Family descent, to London dealer (1991) to Auckland dealer (1991)

Date: 1844 - 1845

From: Mantell, Walter Baldock Durrant, 1820-1895 :Scrapbook. 1840-1872.

By: Mantell, Walter Baldock Durrant (Hon), 1820-1895

Reference: C-103-021-6

Description: View from above Judge's Bay, looking towards the harbour, with Rangitoto and the signal on North Head marked, the roof of Attorney-General William Swainson's house in the left foreground, below bush, St Stephen's Church to the right, on a rise and another house on the far right. Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pencil, 80 x 125 mm

Date: 1882 - 1886

By: Turnbull, Alexander Horsburgh, 1868-1918

Reference: A-090-019

Description: View from the home of Chief Judge, Sir William Martin, at Taurarua, (Judges Bay) Auckland, loking towards St Stephen's Chapel and the graveyard, with the Waitemata Harbour and the beach at Judge's Bay to the left. Formerly attributed to William Bambridge on stylistic grounds and dated between 1841 and 1849. (Bambridge's Diary for 1846-1848, p. 92 (Acc. no 8600) describes how he sketched Taurarua Church and his acquaintance with Judge William Martin). However a number of factors suggest a much later dating of the early to mid 1880s. The trees surrounding the site are quite mature, showing at least 25 years growth. Earlier sketches show much younger, smaller trees, or no trees e.g. Backhouse's 'View from Brighton, Parnell, Auckland, 1871' (E-400-f-009) and a watercolour by John Kinder in Auckland City Art Gallery. More conclusively, the large obelisk gravestone near the top of the hill, (the Hay family gravestone) was not erected until the early 1880s, nor was the cruciform gravestone (Sister Cecil's) to its left. (Information from Robert Phillips, Auckland, 7 October 2001). The second St Stephen's Chapel is shown (as a cruciform wooden church with bell tower). The previous rectangular chapel, built in 1843 (of scoria and without a bell-tower), collapsed in a storm in 1847 and the second church was not constructed until 1857. Other Titles - Judges Bay Inscriptions: Recto - on a separate strip of paper glued down the left side of the image: title Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Ink on cream laid paper, 113 x 159 mm Provenance: Possibly part of Alexander Horsburgh Turnbull's collection.

Date: 1844 - 1845

From: Mantell, Walter Baldock Durrant, 1820-1895 :Scrapbook. 1840-1872.

By: Mantell, Walter Baldock Durrant (Hon), 1820-1895

Reference: C-103-021-5

Description: A small Gothic-style chapel with three lancet windows in its east wall, and a slender steeple at the west end. It is on the cliffs around Auckland Harbour. The church is St Stephen's Chapel at Judge's Bay. H. M. S. Hazard can be seen in the distance in the harbour Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pencil, 90 x 125 mm

Date: 1871

From: Backhouse, John Philemon 1845-1908 :Sketchbook [of New Zealand views. 1871-1876].

By: Backhouse, John Philemon, 1845-1908; Hamblett, Irene Beatrix, 1915-1995

Reference: E-400-f-009

Description: Shows view of Waitemata Harbour from slopes above Parnell where an artist is sitting sketching the scene, with his dog. In middle distance is the church of St Stephen's. Specimens of cabbage tree and toetoe are in the foreground. On verso of E-400-f-008. Inscriptions: Recto - bottom right - J.P.B. / 23.2.71; Recto - bottom left - [Title] Quantity: 1 watercolour(s) in sketchbook.. Physical Description: Ink and monochrome wash, 261 x 370 mm.