3-047-088 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

Prize rabbits at the Crystal Palace Show, 1872. 'The Crystal Palace annual poultry show, held during three days of last week, was the largest yet seen, comprising 3217 pens filled with poultry, pigeons, and rabbits...The rabbits consisted of the different lop-eared varieties, with Angoras, Himalayans, Patagonians, Abyssinians, and other foreigners. The animals of this species which gained some of the best prizes are shown in our Illustration. In front, at the bottom of the page, are two lop-eared rabbits; the first, grey and white, aged seven months...; the next, of a bluish smut colour, ten months old...Above these, in the middle of the page, is the lop-eared rabbit of Mr. Easten, nineteen months old; with the Angora white rabbit, aged two years and a half...Each of these won a first-class prize cup. Looking higher up the page, the white and black doe, with young ones, to the left hand, is one of the Abyssinian breed...which was not eligible for a prize. Above her sits a white and black Himalayan...[which won] a first-prize cup. Two Dutch rabbits are on the opposite side'. From "Illustrated London News", 1872.