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Rhinocerus (Rhinoceros)   (Wikidata search (Cirrus search) Wikidata query (SPARQL)  Create new Wikidata item based on this file)
Artist

After: Albrecht Dürer (recto)

Printed by: Hans Liefrinck I
Print made by: Jacques Androuet Du Cerceau (verso)
Title
Rhinocerus (Rhinoceros)
Description
English: Broadside of a rhinoceros, copy of Dürer's woodcut of 1515; with a hand-coloured woodcut of a rhinoceros standing in profile to the right; six lines of French letterpress underneath; surrounded by impressions of inked leaves and flowers. c.1550


Woodcut and letterpress
Verso: Elevation of a mausoleum; surrounded by impressions of inked leaves


Etching
Date 1550
date QS:P571,+1550-00-00T00:00:00Z/9
Medium paper
Dimensions
Height: 261 millimetres (printed area)
Height: 215 millimetres (woodcut)
Width: 413 millimetres (printed area)
Width: 298 millimetres (woodcut)
institution QS:P195,Q6373
Current location
Prints and Drawings
Accession number
1928,0310.98
Notes

The etching pasted on the verso has been identified by Dr Sachiko Kusukawa (Trinity College, Cambridge) and Michael Waters (Institute of Fine Arts, New York University) as the elevation of a mausoleum; from Jacques Androuet du Cerceau's "Temples à la manière antique" from around 1550. The ground plan of the same building can be found on the verso of 1928,0310.97, from the same Sloane album 5220.

Literature: Susan Dackerman et al.. 'Prints and the Pursuit of Knowledge in Early Modern Europe', Yale UP, 2011, cat.no.38.

Entry from 'Dürer and his Legacy':

'This is a close copy made by an anonymous Flemish printmaker of Dürer's woodcut, no. 243, published in Antwerp by Hans Liefrinck. The inscription is a French translation of the one on Dürer's woodcut, and includes the erroneous date of 1513 which is also seen on Dürer's drawing. The print was originally in an album in the possession of Sir Hans Sloane, the antiquarian and naturalist whose collection formed the foundation bequest to the British Museum in 1753. The album, which seems originally to have been assembled in the sixteenth century, contained prints of various unusual animals, a number of which, like the present sheet, have been decorated with impressions of flowers and plants.'
Source/Photographer https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/object/P_1928-0310-98
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