2-889-474 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

The Annual Exhibition of the Smithfield Club - Bringing in Fat Pig, 1850. Agricultural show in London. 'His Royal Highness Prince Albert obtained the second prize for a pen of 38 weeks and 6 days old Yorkshire pigs, fed on meal and milk: this pen, taken as a whole, presented a set of the finest pigs for general use ever previously exhibited. His Royal Highness made his debut as a successful exhibitor with specimens of the porcine race; and it must now be gratifying to the feelings of his Royal Highness to know, that the perfect animals which he has exhibited on the present occasion almost forbid the possibility of further improvement'. From "Illustrated London News", 1850.