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Summary
This etching depicts the Right Honourable Robert Peel, Secretary of State dressed as a street vendor. It implies he was "selling out" the Protestant Orange Lodges and the Swan River Colony by favouring his cousin, Thomas Peel. The inference being that the most valuable land grant in the Swan River Settlement had been given to Thomas.
Year
1829.
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Call Number
BA2180
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