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A North African porcupine (Hystrix cristata). Reproduction of a drawing.

Three hunting dogs chasing a porcupine. Etching after A. Hondius, 1679.

John Honing. Oil painting, after 1585.

William Cobbett as a porcupine with a snake's tail with two taloned devils representing Sir Francis Burdett and John Horne Tooke. Coloured etching by S. De Wilde, 1808.

Guinea: an animal identified as a porcupine and another animal resembling a pangolin, standing in a tropical forest with elephants grazing in the background. Etching.

Thirteen different mammals ranging from apes, rodents and marsupials to a whale. Coloured lithograph.

A porcupine with quills erect and a hedgehog. Etching.

Wonderful production of nature : the greatest human curiosity! Now in existence, Master Thomas Jones, the Cambrian Porcupine Youth!! ... is now exhibiting, for a short time, at the Cosmorama Rooms, 209 Regent Street.

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Three hunting dogs chasing a porcupine. Etching after A. Hondius, 1679.

Wonderful production of nature : the greatest human curiosity! Now in existence, Master Thomas Jones, the Cambrian Porcupine Youth!! ... is now exhibiting, for a short time, at the Cosmorama Rooms, 209 Regent Street.

John Honing. Oil painting, after 1585.

A porcupine with quills erect and a hedgehog. Etching.

Thirteen different mammals ranging from apes, rodents and marsupials to a whale. Coloured lithograph.