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Dog head in circular frame on yellow Art Nouveau label – Vintage Print

Dog head in circular frame on yellow Art Nouveau label — historic image
Dog head in circular frame on yellow Art Nouveau label. Historic image from the Cats & Dogs collection.

(Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)

Description

A window into the past: Dog head in circular frame on yellow Art Nouveau label, preserved in this historic image. Drawn from the Snapshots of the Past archive, it is an authentic piece of documented history.

The framed print arrives ready to hang; the unframed option suits custom framing. Perfect for a home, office, library or classroom wall, and a gift with a story behind it. Free shipping in the lower 48 states. Since 2001, Snapshots of the Past has shipped historic prints to tens of thousands of customers around the world.

Dog head in circular frame on yellow Art Nouveau label

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A dog's head sits inside a circular frame on a yellow label, a decorative format that owes much to the Art Nouveau style that spread through European graphic design around 1900. Artists of the period favored curving lines, stylized natural motifs and tightly controlled compositions, and printed labels like this one, which were used to advertise goods or decorate packaging, gave them a small, affordable canvas. Animal subjects were popular in this work because they combined sentiment with a sense of pattern. The dog's round face echoes the circular border, so the image reads as a single unified emblem rather than a simple portrait.

Original scan702 × 844 px
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