2-995-967 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

Prize Shorthorns at the Royal Agricultural Society's show, Canterbury, 1860. 'Class 2, Malachite, Mr. Jonathan Peel... a dark roan, nearly eighteen months old; Class 1, Royal Butterfly, Lieut.-Col. Towneley...nearly three years old, and three of his produce were entered at the Canterbury show; Class 5, Wood Rose, Mr. Henry Ambler...about two years and three months old, and a dark roan. Her crops are one of her most taking points; and she has...a nice open head and plenty of good thick flesh; Class 4, Rosette, Mr. Richard Eastwood...She was bred by Mr. Wetherell, the celebrated auctioneer...and is very little more than four years old, but with most wonderful development for her age'. From "Illustrated London News", 1860.