Which magician originally performed the rabbit from the hat trick?

Who was the magician that originally performed the well-known trick of pulling a rabbit out of a hat?Which magician originally performed the rabbit from the hat trick?
Although birds had been used for hundreds of years, rabbits began appearing in hats around 1830. Although iconically tied to magicians for years, the trick has rarely been performed on a a regular basis. The tight bond between magicians and the ';rabbit from the hat'; is traced by some to the use of the image in political cartoons, originating in England, and not from its actual proliferation in the shows of performing magicians.





Who first used the trick is buried in antiquity and will never be definitively known.