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ARCHIVE No. 008
English Cocker Spaniel
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Archive No. 008 / GUNDOG group
The English Cocker 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.
The name is a job description. This was the spaniel that flushed woodcock from cover in the West Country and in Wales, working close and low where a bigger dog could not follow. The Kennel Club separated cockers from springers by weight in 1893, and by 1902 the two were fully distinct. The old shooting term for the temperament was the merry cocker, and it holds. The tail rarely stops, the nose runs the dog rather than the other way round, and the ears trail through the water bowl at every meal without the dog appearing to notice. In drawing the plate, the artist worked the ears and the tail together, since the fall of the one against the constant motion of the other is how a cocker actually reads in a field.
- Archive number
- No. 008 of 39
- Group
- Gundog
- 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 English Cocker Spaniel 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 English Cocker Spaniel is Archive No. 008. 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.
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teeEnglish Cocker Spaniel Archive Tee
3 colours
sweatshirtEnglish Cocker Spaniel Archive Sweatshirt
3 colours
hoodieEnglish Cocker Spaniel Archive Hoodie
3 colours
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