This week our Historical Dog Name is also a very unique dog name!
This week I chose the dog name:
Nipper
Nipper was the Fox Terrier that appears with the phonograph in the RCA trademark. He was a real dog and was not just some concoction of a marketing department.
Nipper the dog (1884-1895), who was born in Bristol England, got his name because he tended to nip the backs of visitors’ legs.
Nipper’s first owner Mark Barraud died destitute and Nipper was taken in by Mark’s younger brother Francis, a painter.
Nipper would listen to the Phonograph, and Francis Barraud "often noticed how puzzled Nipper was to make out where the voice came from." This scene seemed to make a strong memory for Francis Barraud, because it wasn’t until three years after Nipper died that he painted the now famous image.
Francis’s final name for the painting was "His Master’s Voice."
The painting took on several revisions and changes and the original Phonograph was changed to a Gramophone, but eventually it became the image we all know, and we all remember Nipper the dog!
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Upper Pictures: Nipper the Dog
Lower Picture: Francis Barraud painting his now famous image
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