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''Crib and Rosa'' is an 1817 painting by
''Crib and Rosa'' is an 1817 painting by Abraham Cooper
Abraham Cooper (1787–1868) was a British animal and battle painter.
Life
The son of a tobacconist, he was born in Greenwich, London on 8 September 1787. This painting provides an image of the extinct
Old English Bulldog
The Old English Bulldog is an extinct dog breed, breed of dog.
Physical characteristics
The Old English Bulldog was compact, broad and muscular, as reflected in the painting ''Crib and Rosa''. Through John Scott's engraving, this painting ...
dog breed
A dog breed is a particular type of dog that was purposefully bred by humans to perform specific tasks, such as herding, hunting, and guarding. Dogs are the most variable mammal on Earth, with artificial selection producing upward of 360 globall ...
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The painting depicts Crib and Rosa, two Old English Bulldogs. Rosa was considered to represent correct formation for bulldogs at that time. Through John Scott's engraving
Engraving is the practice of incising a design on a hard, usually flat surface by cutting grooves into it with a Burin (engraving), burin. The result may be a decorated object in itself, as when silver, gold, steel, or Glass engraving, glass ar ...
, this painting became the best-known, and most reproduced, painting of dogs from that period.
The image was frequently referred to by exhibitors as an ideal form of the breed. Writing at the end of the nineteenth century, Dalziel says any deficiencies in the otherwise perfect outline of Rosa was due to her sex; lacking desired characteristics of wrinkles and bone structure.
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