3-008-518 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

The International Cattle Show at Poissy, 1862. Engraving from photographs by M. Richebourg, photographer to the French Government. 'The prize of honour among the pigs belongs for English breeds to a seventeen-months white Sussex of 196 kilogrammes, bred by Mr. John Waters; and for French-bred pigs to a twenty-one-months white Yorkshire pig of 202 kilogrammes, bred by M. de La Valette'. From "Illustrated London News", 1862.