This unclipped, undocked black and white Poodle is shown with a smaller sized Poodle in a more traditional Poodle clip.
 

Writings, drawings and paintings from the 1700's and 1800's have many examples of the parti-color Poodle. In fact, several historical books about dogs show, under the heading "The Poodle," a drawing or painting of a Poodle which is parti colored such as the ones opposite and below.
 

From The Illustrated Kennel News (Dec.1912) an article by Nellie Dagois titled The Poodle and His History: "This race of dogs has the head rather large and round, the cerebral space more developed than in other canine, the frontal sinus expanded, the ears long, the legs rather short, and the body compact; the hair over every part of the animal long, curly, black, or white and black, sometimes rufous (red) . . ."
 

1749-1789. Georges Louis Leclerc, compte de Buffon, published numerous volumes of his Histoire Naturelle Generale et Particulie.In one there is a parti-coloured Water-dog with moderate curly coat and clipped pom-poms standing alertly in front of rushes.
 

Clara Bowring, in Poodles, 1960, showed photographs depicting Poodles with various hairstyles engaged in many different activities. Almost all photographs were by German photographers, presumably of German Poodles. She also had a description of 'very charming' parti-colored Poodles.