Victor Cobb was one of the circle of Melbourne artists (others were John Shirlow and Lionel Lindsay) who created a local etching school, inspired by Whistler and other British artists. His family had strong parish connections: for a short time, his father, a doctor, was a member of the parish vestry. His sister, a regular worshipper, went to India and Fiji as a missionary, and her letters sometimes appear in the parish paper during World War I and the following years. This view shows the church from Albert Street. Another Cobb etching, showing the tower, was used by Maynard for the cover of the parish magazine, beginning in the 1930s, and continuing until the mid 1960s. At the time that Cobb created these images, he was living on a barely adequate income, and the printing of institutional images that could sell to a wide public was one way of supplementing this.