Capra Collection

Salix caprea, goat willow tree
An illustrative plate of goat willow foliage and catkins from the Botany Library Plate Collection, held at the Natural History Museum, London

PALLADIO, Andrea di Pietro dalla Gondola, called Andrea (1508-1580). Villa Capra. 1566. ITALY. Vicenza. Renaissance art. Cinquecento. Venetian school. Architecture

Bewick / Mouflon
Linnaeus considered the mouflon a goat (capra ammon) but it is now classified as a sheep, indeed the smallest wild sheep and ancestor of all domestic breeds

Thoroughbred Arabian horse Imaum
Thoroughbred Arabian horse. Imaum, Celebrated Arabian, Property of J.F. Herring, Esq. 1848. Handcoloured copperplate drawn and engraved by E

Cashmere goat, walia ibex and bezoar ibex
Cashmere goat, Capra hircus lanigera, walia ibex, Capra walie (endangered) and bezoar ibex, Capra aegagrus aegagrus (vulnerable)

WW2 era - Comic Postcard - For the love of Mike
The caption is For the love of mike. The expression probably originates from a 1932 film of the same name directed by Frank Capra

Domesticated goat, Capra aegagrus hircus (Capra hircus var.)

Alpine ibex and domestic goat
Alpine ibex, Capra ibex, and domestic goat, Capra aegagrus hircus. Lithograph by Karl Joseph Brodtmann from Heinrich Rudolf Schinzs Illustrated Natural History of Men and Animals, 1836

Alpine ibex, Capra ibex, and common Eurasian
Alpine ibex goat, Capra ibex, and common Eurasian beaver, Castor fiber. Handcoloured copperplate engraving after Sydenham Edwards from John Mason Goods Pantologia, a New Encyclopedia, G

Long-horned whidaw goat, Capra aegagrus, and llama, Lama glama (Glama camel, Camelus lama)

Wild goat, Capra aegagrus, male, female and young

Head of a greater kudu, horns of Ibex, Capra dorcas and kudu
Head of a greater kudu, Tragelaphus strepsiceros, horns of Alpine ibex, Capra ibex, dorcas gazelle, Gazella dorcas, and kudu, Tragelaphus strepsiceros

Nepal goat and Egyptian goat
Nepal goat, Capra hircus nepalensis, and Egyptian goat, Capra nubiana

European ibex, Capra ibex. Handcoloured steel engraving by Lizars after an illustration by James Stewart from William Jardines Naturalists Library, Edinburgh, 1836

Cashmere goat, Capra hircus lanigera. Edinburgh Royal University Museum and Frederick Cuvier

Wild goat, Capra aegagrus, male. Handcoloured steel engraving by Lizars after an illustration by James Stewart from William Jardines Naturalists Library, Edinburgh, 1836

Wild goat, Capra aegagrus, female and young. Handcoloured steel engraving by Lizars after an illustration by James Stewart from William Jardines Naturalists Library, Edinburgh, 1836

Himalayan tahr, Hemitragus jemlahicus (Jemlah goat, Capra jemlahica)

Alpine ibex, Capra ibex. Handcoloured engraving from Edward Griffiths The Animal Kingdom by the Baron Cuvier, London, Whittaker, 1827

Nubian ibex, Capra nubiana. Vulnerable. Abyssinian ibex, Capra jaela

Egyptian goat, doe and kid, Capra aegagrus hircus. Copied from St. Hilaire

Frank Capra takes his first shot of England
American film director, Frank Capra, along with his wife, Lucille Warner, arrives in Egnland on the ocean liner Normandie

Wild goat, Capra aegagrus, and mouflon of Corsica, Ovis aries orientalis.. Handcolored copperplate stipple engraving from Frederic Cuviers Dictionary of Natural Science: Mammals, Paris, France, 1816

Nubian ibex in the Giza Zoo, Egypt. The Giza Zoo was built on the order of Khedive Ismail and opened in 1891. Today it is home to many endangered species and endemic fauna. Date: circa 1908

The Syrian Goat, Capra hircus.. Handcolored copperplate engraving from Ebenezer Siblys Universal System of Natural History, 1794

Pygmy musk deer or royal antelope, Moschus pygmaeus.. Handcolored copperplate engraving from George Shaw and Frederick Nodders The Naturalists Miscellany, 1800

Mazama canepestris guaszuti design
Drawing 62 Vol 1 by Alfred Waterhouse for the ornamentation of the Natural History Museum, London, 1876

Bovidae (family), bovid
Plate 74 from Recherches pour servir a l histoire naturelle des Mammifcres, Vols. 1-4, 1868-74, by Dr. Henri Milne-Edwards (1800-1885) & Dr. Alphonse Milne-Edwards (1835-1900)

Hemitragus jemlahicus, tahr

Budorcas taxicolor, takin
Plate 145a from the collection of drawings of mammals and birds from Nepal, 1818-1858, by Bryan Houghton Hodgson (1800-1894)

Capra nubiana, nubian ibex
Adult male and female and juvenile female. Plate 18 from Symbolae Physicae section: Zoologica I. Mammalia by Christian Gottfried Ehrenberg (1795-1876)

Detail of terracotta panel showing ibex
Part of the intricate interior architecture found in the Natural History Museums Waterhouse building, designed by Alfred Waterhouse (1830-1905)

Capra hircus, goat
Domestic Goat, Angora Breed. Plate from a collection of original watercolour drawings, c. 1781-1785, by Sarah Stone, held at the Natural History Museum

The King of Spain presenting an ibex, July 1927
At the request of George V, the presentation of a group of ibex by King Alfonso of Spain in July 1927 was kept informal. An unveiling ceremony took place at noon in the Central Hall

Goat design
Drawing by Alfred Waterhouse for the ornamentation of the Natural History Museum, London, 1875-1876. Waterhouse designed the museum in the 1860s, and it first opened its doors on Easter Monday 1881

Capra ibex, alpine ibex. Composite shot of the skull of the Capra ibex, alpine ibex

Capra ibex, alpine ibex skull
Capra ibex, alpine ibex. Composite shot of the skull of the Capra ibex, alpine ibex

Phytalmia, antlered fly

Fur : Tibetan Goat
The hide of the Tibetan goat (capra Falconeri) is valued for warm clothing such as traveling coats

Four types of goat: Capra or Wild Goat, Tibetan Goat, Argali, and Nepali Goat

European Ibex
THE EUROPEAN IBEX (capra ibex or ibex ibex)

Chamois (Bewick)
capra rupicapra - though Linnaeus classified this as a goat, it is actually a capriform antelope found only in rocky and mountainous places

Goat (Bewick)
capra hircus COMMON GOAT A lively, playful, and capricious creature (did Bewick intend the pun ?) and a very useful one

Common Antelope (Bewick)
COMMON ANTELOPE capra cervicapra

Ibex (Bewick)
A species of mountain goat - capra ibex : Buffon labels it le bouquetin

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