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Unknown Artist — Two Oxen and Driver

Unknown Artist

Two Oxen and Driver

1850

Despite its small sixth-plate format, this daguerreotype captures the essential partnership between man and beast that drove 19th-century agricultural life.

Medium
daguerreotype, sixth plate

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Unknown Artist, Two Oxen and Driver, 1850

Despite its small sixth-plate format, this daguerreotype captures the essential partnership between man and beast that drove 19th-century agricultural life.

Medium
daguerreotype, sixth plate
Year
1850
Seen at
Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH

Related themes

Nineteenth Century, Monochrome, Animal, Documentary, Photograph, Landscape, Historical, Unknown, Rural, Daguerreotype

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Cleveland Museum of Art, Art Institute of Chicago