3-003-913 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

Animals at the Florence Exposition: buffaloes - camels from the Royal Domain of San Rossore, 1861. 'The cattle show at the Florence exhibition consists of the bovine race, including buffaloes, horses, camels, sheep, goats, pigs, rabbits, and poultry of every description; and, as a proof of what Italy can at the present moment accomplish in this department, it is a very interesting exhibition. To an Englishman it is not so much so in any other point of view; for we are, of course, as all the world well knows, too far ahead of any part of the Continent in all these matters for us to take any interest, except an entirely unselfish one, in the early stages of the course we have so long since passed through'. From "Illustrated London News", 1861.