Barratt's etching explicitly references Gormley's sculptural language, constructing the canine form from dense intersecting lines that directly evoke Gormley's own grid and mesh body sculptures where the human figure is built from networks of geometric linear elements.

Paolozzi worked extensively in printmaking including etching and created figures assembled from dense mechanical and structural line networks, sharing Barratt's approach of building organic forms through an energetic accumulation of intersecting graphic elements.

Ackroyd is a master etcher celebrated for his richly worked aquatint grounds and expressive monochromatic line work, closely paralleling Barratt's technical approach of contrasting complex linear marks against deep tonal aquatint fields within the etching medium.