Artwork description:

This print is after an etching of the celebrated Durham Ox (1796—1807) by John Boultbee (1753—1812). From his home in Harmston, Lincolnshire, the enormous creature would tour country fairs throughout England and Scotland in a specially made carriage drawn by four horses. Attending a show in Oxford in 1807, the ox sustained a damaged hip while alighting his vehicle. The injury failed to heal and he was slaughtered, weighing out at 189 stone.

The picture includes another gigantic beast, the Lockheed C-5m Galaxy, one of the world's largest military aircraft. From a USAF base in Germany the aircraft would sometimes overfly fields where the Durham Ox once grazed. Two hundred years apart, machine and beast are linked by the same desire to make all things bigger and better.

This is a relief print pulled from an engraved sheet of rubber.

Materials used:

oil based inks, dull white inlay paper

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