Retriever dog carrying a hare in its mouth – Vintage Print
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Description
Retriever dog carrying a hare in its mouth comes to life in this historic image, reproduced from the original with every detail intact. It is part of the Snapshots of the Past archive, gathered over 25 years of research.
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Retriever dog carrying a hare in its mouth
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Few images in the dog section capture a working animal at the moment of its task quite like this one: a retriever with a hare held gently in its jaws. Retrievers were bred in Britain during the nineteenth century to fetch game birds and small animals shot by hunters, and they were prized for a soft mouth that could carry a catch without marking it. Pictures like this one often show the dog as a partner in the field, not a pet on a rug, which says a good deal about how sporting life and its animals were viewed at the time. The hare, with its long ears and stretched body, adds a note of wildness that makes the scene feel more alive.
| Original scan | 736 × 805 px |
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| Reference | D16 |
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