Featured on PDR in the collection In Search of the Impossible: The Perfect English Rabbit

The image above details the aesthetic requirements for achieving the "Ideal English Rabbit", the benchmark of perfect markings for a particular breed of rabbit first developed in the middle of the nineteenth century. The diagram reproduces one of a series of eight images created by the English artist Ernest George Wippell for Fur and Feather magazine in 1893, two years after the founding of the English Rabbit Club (though some sources give the date for Wippell's drawings as 1903). In 1927, Fur and Feather published the colour print pictured below in their "ideal breed" series.

English Rabbit

Artist

Date

1915

From

The American Pet Stock Standard of Perfection and Official Guide to the American Fur Fanciers' Association


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Public Domain U.S.

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