omgthatartifact:

Lion: A Newfoundland Dog

Edwin Henry Landseer, 1824

The Victoria & Albert Museum

omgthatartifact:

Vessel Shaped like a Dog’s Head

Greece, 480 BC

The Hermitage Museum

dogjournal:

ANCIENT DOG ART

Title: Standing Dog

Date: ca. 4th Century A.D.

Artist: Anonymous

Medium: Bronze

Dimensions: 17 x 6 1/4 x 14 3/4 in.

Credit Line: Gift of The Christensen Fund, 2001

Geography: Indonesia

(Courtesy Honolulu Academy of Arts)

omgthatartifact:

A Cat Interrupts a Dog Fight to Avenge the Death of her Mother

Tsukioka Yoshitoshi

The Los Angeles County Museum of Art

someone should buy me this book

oldbookillustrations:

Florio, the courier, waited on Mr. Barker with his note of invitation.

From The dogs’ dinner party, Author and artist unknown, London, New York, between 1865 and 1889.

(Source: archive.org)

oldbookillustrations:

Mr. Blenheim was a very gentlemanly dog.

From The dogs’ dinner party, Author and artist unknown, London, New York, between 1865 and 1889.

(Source: archive.org)

oldbookillustrations:

Here he again misbehaved and was soon turned out.

From The dogs’ dinner party, Author and artist unknown, London, New York, between 1865 and 1889.

(Source: archive.org)

oldbookillustrations:

So they all joined together to punish him.

From The dogs’ dinner party, Author and artist unknown, London, New York, between 1865 and 1889.

(Source: archive.org)

dog fight

oldrags:

The Way by James Tissot, ca 1869