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The procession to the ploughing ceremony

India: a decorative carriage pulled by oxen decorated with ornate textiles and bells. Photograph, ca. 1900.

Date: 1900

The shepherds adoring the Christ Child. Drawing by F. Rosaspina.

Rosaspina, Francesco, 1762-1841.

A West Highland ox. Etching by H. Beckwith, ca 1844, after W.H. Davis.

Davis, William Henry, active 1803-1849.

Date: 1 May 1844

An ox walking. Collotype after Eadweard Muybridge, 1887.

Muybridge, Eadweard, 1830-1904.

Date: 1887

The birth of Christ; in the background, shepherds are hailed by an angel. Engraving.

A man ploughing with oxen; in the background, women tending the paddy fields. Gouache drawing, 18--.

Date: 1800-1899

Heads of oxen, horse & lion with human eyes, 17th C

Charles Le Brun

Every man his own cattle doctor; containing the causes, symptoms, and treatment of all the diseases incident to oxen, sheep, swine, poultry, and rabbits

Clater, Francis, 1756-1823.

Date: 1836

Markham's master-piece containing all knowledge belonging to the smith, farrier, or horse-leach, touching the curing all diseases in horses. Drawn with great pains from approved experience, and the publick practice of the best horse-marshals in Christendom. Divided into two books. The I. containing cures physical : The II. all cures chirurgical. Together with the nature, use, and quality of every simple mentioned through the whole work. Now the sixteenth time printed, corrected, and augmented, with above thirty new chapters, and forty new medicines heretofore never publish'd . To which is added, the exactest receipts for curing all diseases in oxen, cows, sheep, hogs, goats, dogs, and all smaller cattle. Also the compleat jockey ; containing methods for the training horses up for racing ... To which is added ... directions to preserve all sorts of cattle, from all manner of diseases ...

Markham, Gervase, 1568?-1637.

Date: 1703

The birth of Christ; the Virgin kneels before the manger. Engraving by S.A. Bolswert after P.P. Rubens.

Rubens, Peter Paul, 1577-1640.

After healing a lame man, the apostles Paul and Barnabas are mistaken for gods at Lystra; the priest brings them a sacrifice of oxen. Etching after Raphael.

Raphael, 1483-1520.

Agriculture: schoolboys variously employed ploughing, digging, and raking earth. Engraving.

Sculptures of two oxen carved in sandstone in the Museum of Les Eyzies in France. Reproduction of a photograph.

After healing a lame man, the apostles Paul and Barnabas are mistaken for gods at Lystra; the priest brings them a sacrifice of oxen. Etching by B. Lépicié, 1721, after Raphael.

Raphael, 1483-1520.

Date: 1721

The countryman's treasure ; shewing the nature, causes, and cure of all diseases incident to oxen, cows, calves, sheep, and lambs, with proper means to prevent them ... Also directions for killing all sorts of vermin ... Likewise, a receipt for the bite of mad dogs.

Date: [1795?]

A Sikh man riding in an elaborate domed carriage pulled by two oxen. Gouache painting by an Indian painter.

Date: [between 1800 and 1899?]

Saint Luke. Etching by G. Smith after himself.

Smith, Gabriel, 1724-1783.

Date: 1700-1799

Mary, Joseph, the ass and the ox genuflect before the infant Jesus; shepherds arrive behind. Aquatint with etching by C.M. Metz after Titian.

Titian, approximately 1488-1576.

Date: [1798?]

The adoration of Christ, surrounded by maids, in a city. Engraving.

Stones found in oxen, sheep and pigs: eleven figures. Coloured etching, 1840/1860?

Date: [1840/1860?]

The adoration by the magi of Christ, shown as young and old. Etching by J. Basire the elder, 1794, after J. Carter, after a bas-relief in Long Melford church, Suffolk.

Basire, James, 1730-1802

Date: 1794

A short horned ox. Etching by H. Beckwith, ca 1839, after W.H. Davies.

Davies, William H., active 1832-1838.

Date: 1 Feb 1839

A Hereford ox. Etching by E. Hacker, ca 1850, after W.H. Davis.

Davis, William Henry, active 1803-1849.

Date: 1850

A Hereford ox. Etching, ca 1839.

Date: 1 May 1839

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