From a drawing by Thomas Rowlandson (175601827), showing oxen with their wagon waiting to be loaded, people sitting near hayricks and trees and hills in the background. PREVREF 2190 duplicate
An oxen being shod. Date and location unknown. Photo purchased at auction in a collection of rural subjects in 1934. Note the steel strips in the foreground, typical 'stock' to be found at the threshold of most village smithies of the period. Thought…
An oxen being shod. Date and location unknown. Photo purchased at auction in a collection of rural subjects in 1934. Note the steel strips in the foreground, typical 'stock' to be found at the threshold of most village smithies of the period. Thought…
Taken at Stetten on the Swiss-German border. Not a superb photograph but it may be useful. The land here is in narrow strips as when the owner dies his land is divided among his children. A daughter with land is much sought-after as a…
Oxen at work. Turn of the century (1900) harvest scene. Date and location unknown. Photo purchased at auction in a collection of rural subjects in 1934.