Title

Heads of the people [Mr Keek].

Author

Author not identified

Source

Maitland Mercury (Maitland, NSW)

Details

24 April 1847, p.2, col.3.

Publication date

24 April 1847

Type

Publication Review

Language

English

Country of context

Australia

Abstract

Review of first issue of Heads of the People, the lithographic illustration was of the goalkeeper Mr Keek.

Full text

Heads of the People. - A new journal has been started in Sydney, bearing the above title, which professes to be a journal of news, literature, whims, and oddities. The first number was published on Saturday last, and is very well got up. The "head" or rather full-length, given in this number is stated to be a portrait of Mr. Keek, the governor of 'Darlinghurst gaol, and it is-said to be a good one; as a work of art the lithograph is one of the best of this description we have seen issued in the colony. The article it illustrates is, however, more a description of the gaol than of the gaoler. - There are several other illustrations, and a variety of paragraphs containing jokes and puns on passing occurrences, and it is altogether a very readable, humourous paper. We wish our new contemporary a long life and a merry one.

[The Maitland Mercury & Hunter River General Advertiser, 24 April 1847, p.2, col.3.]