'The Goat', c1850. Artist: Benjamin Waterhouse Hawkins

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'The Goat', c1850. The central image is of a goat and kid. Surrounding vignettes show (clockwise from top left): milking goats for milk and cheese; an Eastern goatherd and tents made of goatskin; goatskin for army knapsacks; buying goatskin gloves in the glover's shop; buying goatskin shoes; goatskin used for Morocco bindings for books; a goat pulling a cart; hair of angora or cashmere goat for textiles shuch as shawls; men in an Alpine district eating goat flesh and cheese. From Graphic Illustrations of Animals and Their Utility to Man published by Thomas Varty. (London, c1850).

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Photo credit: © Oxford Science Archive/Heritage Images / Alamy / Afripics
License: Licensed
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