From the Sty, by the Learned Pig: from Punch, July 10, 1880
Front cover from The frog who would a wooing go, published by Brown, Taggard & Chase, Boston, circa 1858.
(Source: archive.org)
The pig depicted here, with a goose quill ticked under his ear, might very well be a “learned” one, I think!
W.W. Denslow’s leaping pig on the cover of “Barnyard Circus” from the Baldwin Library of Children’s Literature at the University of Florida.
Noted Oz illustrator W.W. Denslow’s version of the “FIve Little Pigs,” from the Baldwin Library of Children’s Literature at the University of Florida.
Paddy O’Leary and his Learned Pig — from the Baldwin Library of Children’s Literature at the University of Florida.
The Little Pig Monthly, via merrycoz.files.wordpress.com
Pinchbeck’s Pig of Knowledge — from openlibrary.org via flickr
Lady Delaware and Thomas Crane. Life and adventures of Mr. Pig and Miss Crane: A Nursery Tale (1836?)
(Source: openlibrary.org)
An early riff on the idea of a “Learned Pig,” 1786
Randolph Caldecott. The Farmer’s Boy. London: G. Routledge, c.1881
(Source: ufdc.ufl.edu)
