ARCHIVE No. 014
Beagle
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Archive No. 014 / HOUND group
The Beagle story
ENGLAND
Drawn as an original engraving in its own landscape and printed as a full archive plate. Comes as a tee, a sweatshirt, a hoodie, a print and a pack of cards, from £30.00.
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.
- Archive number
- No. 014 of 39
- Group
- Hound
- Origin
- ENGLAND
- Comes as
- Tee, Sweatshirt, Hoodie, Print
- From
- £30.00
- Printed
- In the UK for UK orders, in the USA for North America
The Beagle 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.
