English Cocker Spaniel

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  English Cocker Spaniel Humour Tee

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  English Cocker Spaniel Portrait Tee

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  English Cocker Spaniel Front Study Tee

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  English Cocker Spaniel Archive Print

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  English Cocker Spaniel Archive Hoodie

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  English Cocker Spaniel Archive Sweatshirt

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  English Cocker Spaniel Archive Tee

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The history of the English Cocker Spaniel

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.

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 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.