Credit: © The Royal Society
Image number: RS.9377
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Vietnamese pot-bellied pig
Date
4 August 1693
Creator
Henry Hunt (British) , Artist
Object type
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Material
Dimensions
height (drawing): 182mm
width (drawing): 295mm
width (drawing): 295mm
Subject
Content object
Description
Study of sow inscribed: “An East Indian sow keept by Justus Conyers at Waltham ‘stoe & there drawn August 4th 1693 f. H.Hunt. being almost Naked all over only some few piles of heire on y. upper parts and y. skin as black as a Negro [sic].” Watermarked “OMPANY”
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