![]() ![]() Johnson of the Consolidated Talking Machine Company, which was reorganized as the Victor Talking Machine Company in 1901. The painting was adopted as a trademark by Eldridge R. Emile Berliner, the inventor of the Gramophone, had seen the picture in London and took out a United States copyright on it in July, 1900. As the trademark gained in popularity, several additional copies were subsequently commissioned from the artist for various corporate purposes. Barraud complied and the image was first used on the company's catalogue from December 1899. ![]() He was unable to sell the work to any cylinder phonograph company, but William Barry Owen, the American founder of the Gramophone Company in England, offered to purchase the painting under the condition that Barraud modify it to show one of their disc machines. In early 1899, Francis Barraud applied for copyright of the original painting using the descriptive working title Dog looking at and listening to a Phonograph. Francis noted the peculiar interest that the dog took in the recorded voice of his late master emanating from the horn, and conceived the idea of committing the scene to canvas. When Mark Barraud died, Francis inherited Nipper, with a cylinder phonograph and recordings of Mark's voice. According to contemporary Gramophone Company publicity material, the dog, a terrier named Nipper, had originally belonged to Barraud's brother, Mark. It was acquired from the artist in 1899 by the newly formed Gramophone Company and adopted by the Victor Talking Machine Company in the United States. The trademark image comes from a painting by English artist Francis Barraud and titled His Master's Voice. In the 1970s, the statue of the dog and gramophone, His Master's Voice, were cloaked in bronze and was awarded by the record company (EMI) to artists or music producers or composers as a music award and often only after selling more than 100.000 sound carriers such as LPs. In the original painting, the dog was listening to a cylinder phonograph. The name was coined in the 1890s as the title of a painting of a Jack Russell terrier dog named Nipper, listening to a wind-up gramophone. ![]() His Master's Voice (HMV) is a famous trademark in the music and recording industry and was the unofficial name of a major British record label. ![]()
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