Nipper

The dog on a century of record labels was a real Bristol terrier cross, born around 1884 and named for nipping visitors' ankles. He never posed for the famous picture: Francis Barraud painted His Master's Voice in 1898, three years after Nipper died, working from an old photograph. The machine in it was first a cylinder phonograph. The Gramophone Company bought the painting in 1899 on condition that Barraud swap in one of its disc gramophones. Nipper was buried in Kingston upon Thames, where a plaque at the rear of a Lloyds Bank branch marks the approximate spot.