Oxen at the Gate

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Monochrome photograph mounted on card depicting two oxen pulling a cart being driven by a man. In the background of the image is a stone building with a large arched entrance and a bell house. Another figure is standing in the arched entrance.

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Categories	The Royal Photographic Society Photographs Animals and Wildlife Portraits RPS Digitisation Project
Object type	Photograph
Title	Oxen at the Gate (assigned by artist)
Materials and techniques	Carbon print. Carbon Process Photography
Brief description	Photograph by Alexander Keighley, 'Oxen at the Gate', carbon print, 1939
Physical description	Monochrome photograph mounted on card depicting two oxen pulling a cart being driven by a man. In the background of the image is a stone building with a large arched entrance and a bell house. Another figure is standing in the arched entrance.
Dimensions	Mount height: 605mm Mount width: 504mm
Marks and inscriptions	'Royal Photographic Society/ Alexander Keighley Collection 1948/ Title: Oxen at the Gate/ Process: Carbon/ Date: 1939/ No. AK 108' (Printed and completed in ink.) 'Alex Keighley' (Handwritten in pencil on lower right corner of image.)
Credit line	The Royal Photographic Society Collection at the V&A, acquired with the generous assistance of the National Lottery Heritage Fund and Art Fund.
Other numbers	2147 - RPS identifier - inventory no. 13559 - RPS identifier - inventory no. 108 - RPS identifier - misc. 2003-5001_2_26082 - Science Museum Group accession number
Collection	Department of Photography
Accession number	RPS.2105-2018

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Record created	June 20, 2018
Record URL	https://collections.vam.ac.uk/item/O1443547/oxen-at-the-gate-photograph-alexander-keighley/

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