Lot 195

[Australian Gallery Directors Council], Converting the Wilderness: The Art of Gardening in Colonial Australia [touring exhibition shown at public galleries in several states], October 1979–June 1980]

[Australian Gallery Directors Council], Converting the Wilderness: The Art of Gardening in Colonial Australia, exh. cat. (1979), cat. nos 69 and 70, pp. 57 and 70 (illustrated, as unidentified 'Villa, Port Phillip Bay')
P. Watts and M. Barrett (ed.), Historic Gardens of Victoria – A Reconnaissance (1983) (cover illustration [garden front], as unidentified 'Villa, Port Phillip Bay')
H. Penrose and C. Waterhouse, Kostka – Xavier by the Sea (1997), pp 10–11 (one illustrated)

Built in 1867 for Sir Frederick McCoy (1817–1899), founding Professor of Natural History at the University of Melbourne, 'Maritima' was purchased by the Jesuit order in 1936 as the core of Xavier College's new junior school, Kostka Hall. It remains extant, albeit altered, facing Hartley Street, Brighton.

McCoy was the first owner of lot 240 in the present auction, which presumably was hung in 'Maritima'.