ARCHIVE No. 020
Great Dane
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Archive No. 020 / WORKING group
The Great Dane story
GERMANY
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.
Nothing about the Great Dane is Danish. German nobility bred the type, known at home as the Deutsche Dogge, from mastiff and sighthound stock to hunt wild boar, work demanding both weight and speed, and the breed was formalised in Germany in the 1880s once that hunting had largely ended. What replaced the job is an unshakeable conviction that the dog is small. Owners describe the head arriving on a knee unannounced, the tail clearing a coffee table in a single sweep, and the slow leaning collapse against a leg that has to be braced for in advance. In the study, the artist lowered the head slightly and used the long clean line from ear to shoulder to carry the scale, so that size is implied by proportion rather than stated.
- Archive number
- No. 020 of 39
- Group
- Working
- Origin
- GERMANY
- Comes as
- Tee, Sweatshirt, Hoodie, Print
- From
- £30.00
- Printed
- In the UK for UK orders, in the USA for North America
The Great Dane 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 Great Dane is Archive No. 020. 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.
