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The Flat-coated Retriever (Vero Shaw breed plate)

Name: The Flat-coated Retriever (Vero Shaw breed plate)
Brand: Best in Show
SKU: PA-01786

Vero Shaw (pub.), 1879–81

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No print size passed the check for this piece: at 8 x 10 in, 69 dpi; a historical scan is never enlarged. We would rather show it than sell a soft print.

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An 1881 chromolithograph of the Flat-coated Retriever, then the reigning retriever of Britain, glossy black and ready for the shooting field. A portrait of the retriever that came before the ones everyone owns now — the connoisseur's ancestor of the family dog.

Maker: Vero Shaw (pub.)
Date: 1879–81
Medium of the original: Chromolithograph
Original held by: Internet Archive / Cassell 1879–81
Credit: Internet Archive / Cassell 1879–81 · via Wikimedia Commons
Rights: Public domain, verified
Catalogue number: PA-01786

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Size	Why
8 x 10 in	69 dpi; a historical scan is never enlarged
8 x 12 in	63 dpi; a historical scan is never enlarged
11 x 14 in	50 dpi; a historical scan is never enlarged
12 x 16 in	46 dpi; a historical scan is never enlarged
12 x 18 in	42 dpi; a historical scan is never enlarged
16 x 20 in	34 dpi; a historical scan is never enlarged
16 x 24 in	31 dpi; a historical scan is never enlarged
18 x 24 in	31 dpi; a historical scan is never enlarged
20 x 30 in	25 dpi; a historical scan is never enlarged
24 x 30 in	23 dpi; a historical scan is never enlarged
24 x 36 in	21 dpi; a historical scan is never enlarged
30 x 40 in	18 dpi; a historical scan is never enlarged
36 x 48 in	15 dpi; a historical scan is never enlarged
40 x 60 in	12 dpi; a historical scan is never enlarged