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Back Cover: A caricature (Birds of A Feather. / Sir Alexander Peacock and a friend. Pen and ink, [1915] H87. 14/5, La Trobe Picture Collection) by (Sir) David Low (1891-1963) of Sir Alexander Peacock (1861-1933), who was three times Premier of Victoria, the first occasion being in 1901–02, and member of the Victorian Parliament for 44 years. Peacock, whose nickname was ‘Kookaburra’, is described by journalist Thorold Waters in his memoirs (Much Besides Music, 1951) as ‘a right good fellow, possessed of a kookaburra cachinnation which was notorious throughout Australia’. New Zealand-born Low worked as a cartoonist in Melbourne and Sydney (on the Bulletin) before going to London and greater fame in 1919. This drawing was reproduced in Caricatures by Low (1915). As Christine Downer explains in her article, the selection of Low's work which the Library acquired in 1986 marked the beginning of the cartoon collection.