Realism tattoo of a white dog wearing a bowler hat, monocle and bow tie inside an ornate gold frame on the thigh.

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Dog portrait in bowler hat and gold frame

Realism · Thigh · Colour · Photo

A realistic portrait of a white dog with dark patches around one eye, wearing a black bowler hat, a round monocle and a black bow tie. The dog is shaded with soft greys, creams and browns, and sits inside an ornate oval gold frame with scrolled top and bottom detail. A printed reference photo of the same dog lies beside the tattooed leg, and the tattoo fills most of the upper thigh.

Realism Thigh Dog Monocle Bow tie Portrait

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A story inspired by this tattoo · fiction

Mr Osgood Pell had been a dog of standing on Tuesdays and of no standing at all on Wednesdays, and Mabel the frame-maker had never managed to tell which day it was by looking at him. He arrived at the back door of her shop on Chapel Row with the rain dripping off his bowler, a brass monocle screwed into one eye, and a bow tie knotted so precisely that she suspected him of practising in the bathroom mirror.

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"I require a frame," he said, which was not a thing a dog should be able to say, but Mabel had long since stopped minding such things in a town where the market traders argued with pigeons. He wanted gilt, he wanted scrolls at the crown and the foot, and he wanted it oval, because, he explained, a rectangle was for newspapers and accounts.

She cut the moulding that afternoon while the rain hammered the skylight. Between cuts she looked at the photograph he had left on the bench, a damp print of himself without the hat, squinting, his left eye ringed in a patch like spilled ink. "You were handsomer before," she said. "Vainer, too," he replied, and tapped the glass of the frame with one paw. "Put me in it as I am now. A man ought to be remembered in his best hat."

When the gilt dried she hung the frame on the wall above the kettle, and the dog looked at it for a long time. Then he took the monocle off, polished it on his tie, and said that the picture was perfectly fine, but he would rather she did not charge him for the bow tie, since it had been his late wife's. Mabel did not know how to answer that, so she lifted the kettle and poured two cups, one of them into a saucer on the floor.