# Studies of Goats

- By: Josephus Augustus Knip (Tilburg, 1777–1847)
- Date: c. 1809 - c. 1812
- Medium: paper, watercolor (paint), graphite (mineral)
- Classification: drawing
- Dimensions: height 148 mm x width 210 mm
- Credit line: Purchased with the support of the Gerhards Fonds/Rijksmuseum Fonds, the VSBfonds, the Mondriaan Fonds and the Vereniging Rembrandt with additional funding from the Hendrik de Jong Fonds and the Liente Dons Fonds
- Museum: [Rijksmuseum](https://www.rijksmuseum.nl/en/collection/object/RP-T-2014-14-32--08b85580c3bdf04536fe2a6f0de8e34a)
- Rights: [Public Domain Mark](http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/)
- Picture: https://iiif.micr.io/cQtmd/full/!1920,1080/0/default.jpg
- Who can see it: Little Ones profiles and older (museums give no ratings; placed by Invisible Network from the museum's own words)

Knip must have drawn these kinds of small studies of animals in large numbers. They proved useful as staffage in his painted landscapes populated with ‘beeldjes en beestjes’ (figures and beasts), as they were described in the 19th century.