I was taking a graphics course and one of my assignments was to create a graphic using an image of my choosing, and make it appear that is was being torn off a stack of something, similar to a calendar and revealing an image behind it...

 

Well, I had the image of Thomas Gainsborough's painting
"Pomeranian Bitch and Puppy" circa 1777.

 

Note the image of the modern day eskie behind the curled painting... Note too, the similarities in the stance, head, and general all over appearance...

The eskie in the photograph is

AKC Ch/UKC Gr. Ch Alpine's He Walks W O Sound

 at age 13 weeks.

 

 

The popularity of animal painting increased towards the end of the eighteenth century. Animals were observed with a closer attention to nature, combined with a feeling for their individual characters. Gainsborough excelled at painting dogs and often included them in his portraits. The Pomeranians shown here belonged to his friend, the famous cellist, Carl Friedrich Abel. The painting is a particularly happy example of Gainsborough's ability to make the dogs a subject for a serious portrait in their own right. The sensitive painting of the convolvulus flowers growing on the rock to the right reveals the artist's powers of observation, but the distant landscape is purely imaginary.

Gainsborough's Pomeranian portrait is on display at The Tate Museum, London, England.