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Oxen

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  • The London Hospital, Whitechapel: seen from the northern side of the Whitechapel Road. Wood engraving, after an engraving of c.1753.
  • Cybele, Bacchus, Ceres and Flora on a chariot drawn by lions surrounded by all forms of natural abundance and cherubs, symbolising the element earth. Engraving by E. Baudet, 1695, after F. Albani.
  • India: a man smoking a hookah whips a bullock who is drawing him on a platform around a milling wheel. Watercolour, 18--.
  • A Hereford ox. Etching by C. Cook, ca 1838, after J. Giles.
  • The Virgin Mary prays to the infant Jesus, who is being carried by four kneeling angels; they all stand in a circle around the sun drawn on the ground. Aquatint with etching by C.M. Metz after D. Ghirlandaio.
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    The London Hospital, Whitechapel: seen from the northern side of the Whitechapel Road. Wood engraving, after an engraving of c.1753.

    | Reference: 39449i
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    The shepherds adoring the Christ Child. Drawing by F. Rosaspina.

    | Reference: 11760i
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    A West Highland ox. Etching by H. Beckwith, ca 1844, after W.H. Davis.

    Davis, William Henry, active 1803-1849. | Date: 1 May 1844 | Reference: 39996i
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    An ox walking. Collotype after Eadweard Muybridge, 1887.

    Muybridge, Eadweard, 1830-1904. | Date: 1887 | Reference: 2011314i
    Part of: Animal locomotion: an electro-photographic investigation of consecutive phases of animal movements
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    The birth of Christ; in the background, shepherds are hailed by an angel. Engraving.

    | Reference: 21812i
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