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The wonderful pig.   (Wikidata search (Cirrus search) Wikidata query (SPARQL)  Create new Wikidata item based on this file)
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Print made by: Thomas Rowlandson

Published by: S W Fores
Title
The wonderful pig.
Description
English: A semicircle of spectators, seated and standing, crowded one behind the other, watch the performance of the pig, who stands before a row of initial letters, one of which he holds in his mouth. Over the chimney-piece is a placard, 'The Surprising PIG well versed in all Languages, perfect Arethmatician Mathematician & Composer of Musick'. On the right wall of the room hangs a large shoe. 1785
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Date 1785
date QS:P571,+1785-00-00T00:00:00Z/9
Medium paper
Dimensions
Height: 247 millimetres
Width: 346 millimetres
institution QS:P195,Q6373
Current location
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Accession number
1868,0808.5428
Notes

(Description and comment from M.Dorothy George, 'Catalogue of Political and Personal Satires in the British Museum', VI, 1938)

The learned or sapient pig caused a sensation in 1784 and later, see BMSat 6715, 7214. Cf. Southey, 'Letters of Espriella', 1807, iii. 49: 'the learned pig was in his day a far greater object of admiration to the English nation than ever was Sir Isaac Newton.' See also Boswell, 'Johnson', ed. Hill and Powell, iv. 1934. pp. 373, 547 f.
Source/Photographer https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/object/P_1868-0808-5428
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