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  Beagle Humour Tee

  £42.00
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  Beagle Portrait Tee

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  Beagle Front Study Tee

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  Beagle Archive Print

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  Beagle Archive Hoodie

  £62.00
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  Beagle Archive Sweatshirt

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  Beagle Archive Tee

  £42.00
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The history of the Beagle

Packs of small hounds were followed on foot across England for centuries, hunting hare at a pace a walking man could hold; Elizabethan accounts describe pocket beagles small enough to travel in a saddlebag. The modern breed was formalised in the nineteenth century and kept every bit of the nose. That nose is the whole story. A Beagle on a scent is not being disobedient, it is temporarily unable to hear you, and the voice it uses on finding something is a bay built to carry across a field rather than a kitchen. Owners learn to treat the worktop as storage of last resort. In the drawing the head is set low and slightly turned, tracking, because a Beagle at rest with its nose in the air is a Beagle nobody would recognise.

About the plate

Every plate in the archive is drawn from scratch as a natural-history engraving, the breed set in the country it was made for rather than floated on a white background. The Beagle is Archive No. 014. The drawing is printed as a full plate across the back of the garment, nothing on the front, and the same plate is used for the print and the cards.

Garments are made when they are ordered, so nothing is printed until it is wanted and nothing is held in a warehouse. UK orders are printed in the UK and North American orders in the USA, which keeps the parcel on the same side of the ocean as the person waiting for it. If it is not right when it arrives, it can go back within 30 days.