Domesticated mammal raised for its meat and milk

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A woman sitting outside with a friend breast-feeding her child, a goat accompanies them. Etching by D. Deuchar.

The Hospital of Bethlem [Bedlam] at Moorfields, London: seen from the north, with ladies and gentlemen walking in the foreground. Engraving by B. Cole.

A group of goats, with the billy goat standing on a rock above the nanny goat and the kids. Chalk lithograph by V. J. Adam.

A witch at her cauldron surrounded by monsters. Etching by Jan van de Velde II, 1626.

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A goat trotting, pulling a two-wheeled sulky with a boy in it. Collotype after Eadweard Muybridge, 1887.

A goat-headed man caresses a sleeping ewe-headed woman; representing the notion of animal magnetism and its application by physicians. Etching after M. Voltz (?), 1815.

A hairy goat with long curved horns. Engraving.

A couple hovering off the ground being observed by a huge goat with two cats. Etching by F. Goya, 1796/1798.

An ibex, a Syrian goat and a chamois antelope. Coloured etching by J. Pass, 31 July 1800.

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Devon drench : a famous and invaluable remedy for the disorders of horses, cattle, sheep, pigs : Especially so for red water, scouring, cold, colic and influenza, milk fever, costiveness, etc. : also as a cleansing drench for cows and ewes after calving and lambing and preventative of milk fever.

Sheep and cattle facts for farmers.

The arch of Janus, Rome. Line engraving by F. Morelli, 179-.

A male and female domestic goat and a fallow deer stag. Coloured engraving.

A naked witch watching a seated monster grabbing a jumping goat by its hind leg. Etching by F. Goya, 1796/1798.

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Goats

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Devon drench : a famous and invaluable remedy for the disorders of horses, cattle, sheep, pigs : Especially so for red water, scouring, cold, colic and influenza, milk fever, costiveness, etc. : also as a cleansing drench for cows and ewes after calving and lambing and preventative of milk fever.

Sheep and cattle facts for farmers.

The arch of Janus, Rome. Line engraving by F. Morelli, 179-.

A male and female domestic goat and a fallow deer stag. Coloured engraving.

A naked witch watching a seated monster grabbing a jumping goat by its hind leg. Etching by F. Goya, 1796/1798.

Goats

Images from the collections

Images referencing Goats

Works from the collections

Devon drench : a famous and invaluable remedy for the disorders of horses, cattle, sheep, pigs : Especially so for red water, scouring, cold, colic and influenza, milk fever, costiveness, etc. : also as a cleansing drench for cows and ewes after calving and lambing and preventative of milk fever.

Sheep and cattle facts for farmers.

The arch of Janus, Rome. Line engraving by F. Morelli, 179-.

A male and female domestic goat and a fallow deer stag. Coloured engraving.

A naked witch watching a seated monster grabbing a jumping goat by its hind leg. Etching by F. Goya, 1796/1798.

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