Cox, F. J., c. 1837, Artwork, B 5964
Ink sketch with watercolour wash of a man on a horse with a dog running beside it. Inscription on the artwork reads 'Ben Payne, known as 'The Admiral', first runner of The Register newspaper in the early days of the colony'. [A 'runner' was a boy employed to deliver the newspaper after it was printed.] Another notation reads 'By F.J. Cox, from a sketch by S.T. Gill'. A (much) later note on the back of the painting reads 'an advertisement in 'The Register' of 9 December 1848 (p.1c) suggests that the runner's name was Harry Paine'.