Title

Answers to correspondents. [Veno and Alice Hawthorn, by S.T. Gill, engraved by W.G. Mason].

Author

Bell's Life in Sydney.

Source

Bell's Life in Sydney (Sydney)

Details

14 November 1857, p.2, col.1.

Publication date

14 November 1857

Type

News

Language

English

Country of context

Australia

Full text

ANSWERS TO CORRESPONDENTS
MEMORIA.—You are perfectly right. The professed portraits of VENO and ALICE, so ostentatiously announced and published by a contemporary, are simply copies of other horses, “familiar”, as you rightly observe, “to many”; and the “original”, or the copy from whence the ficticious sketch of the Champion was traced, can be seen on application at this office. The engravings were, moreover, prepared “on spec” on the certainty of Veno winning, long before the result of the race reached Sydney; and had the mare won, “all the fat would have been in the fire”. We have the public credit for some little discernment, or should have exposed the trick before.

[Bell’s Life in Sydney, 14 November 1857, p.2, col.1.]