The Pig, C1850. Artist Benjamin
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The Pig, C1850. Artist Benjamin
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Print Collector
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Drawing - Illustration
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The Pig, c1850. The central image shows a sow and piglets. Surrounding vignettes show (clockwise from top left): a swineherd with pigs in a forest to eat acorns, exercising rights of panage; hunting wild boar with dogs; a farmhouse kitchen with hams hanging from the rafters and a woman serving a leg of pork, while on the table are a pork pie and a roast suckling pig; a house painter using a brush of pig bristle; an artist using a brush of pig bristle; a broom seller; pigskin for making saddles; export of bacon and lard; pigs at a market. From Graphic Illustrations of Animals and Their Utility to Man published by Thomas Varty. (London, c1850). (Photo by Oxford Science Archive/Print Collector/Getty Images)
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