Cavalier King Charles Spaniel

Archive No. 010 / TOY group

The Cavalier King Charles Spaniel 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.

Toy spaniels sat at the feet of the Stuart court, and Charles II kept enough of them for diarists to complain about it. The modern breed is a deliberate reconstruction: in the 1920s Roswell Eldridge offered prize money at Crufts for spaniels of the older, longer-nosed sort shown in seventeenth-century portraits, and breeders answered him. What survived is a dog bred for company and for nothing else, which is exactly how it behaves. Cavaliers do not merely follow you upstairs, they wait outside the bathroom door, and they will choose a lap over a walk without appearing to weigh it up. Drawn for the archive, the ears are given the space they need to fall properly, since a Cavalier's whole expression depends on the frame they make around the face.

Archive number

No. 010 of 39

Group

Toy

Origin

ENGLAND

Comes as

Tee, Sweatshirt, Hoodie, Print

From

£30.00

Printed

In the UK for UK orders, in the USA for North America