CORRESPONDENCE.
AN OLD CARICATURE.
TO THE EDITOR.
Sir,—The Museum Committee has just received from the Hon. the Premier a
curious caricature (steel engraving) which had been forwarded by the Agent-
General. It represents a man carrying a box of fish. On the lid is a swan
and the words, “A job for my country cousin,” and out of his mouth issue
the words, “Peel! Peel! wonderful Peel! Swan River Peel! Family Peel—good
for everything. Warranted daddy’s own manufacture, fresh, fresh from the
jennies,” while the lettering at the bottom is, “A sharpshooter fee. Pubd.
June 6th, 1829, by J. Fairburn, Broadway, Ludgate-hill, where all the
newest caricatures are daily publishing.” I trust that you will kindly
publish this, not only because it may interest some of your readers, but
also in the hope that some of them who possess old prints bearing on the
early history of the colony may be induced to present them to the national
collection to ensure their preservation.
Yours, etc.,
BERNARD H. WOODWARD.
Curator.
The Museum, March 13.
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