The Right Hon. Lord Mayor McArthur
Edward Linley Sambourne (1844-1910)
Wood engraving
Punch (13 November 1880): 226
Punch’s Fancy Portraits No. 7
“M.P. for the Aborigines”
“And in full Costume, not unlike the eminent Tragedian, Mr. J. R. Toole, so — ‘There you are, don’t-ch-yer-know’.”
McArthur, who is apparently mocked for his defence of the first peoples of Australia, sits next to a bottle containing black and white human heads labelled “Goody Goodies,” “aborigines protection,” and “young men’s Christian dissections”