Object types
print (scope note | all objects)
broadside (scope note | all objects)
Title (object)
Rhinocerus (Rhinoceros)
Materials
paper (all objects)
Techniques
letterpress (all objects)
woodcut (scope note | all objects)
Production person
Print made by Albrecht Dürer (biographical details | all objects)
Date
1515
Schools /Styles
German (scope note | all objects)
Description
Broadside on a rhinoceros; with a woodcut of a rhinoceros standing in profile to the right, and five and a half lines letterpress above; from the second edition. 1515
Woodcut and letterpress
Inscriptions
Inscription Content: Signed, dated, and titled on the block.
Dimensions
Height: 210 millimetres (woodcut)
Width: 297 millimetres (woodcut)
Height: 241 millimetres (printed area)
Width: 301 millimetres (printed area)
Curator's comments
Schoch dates the printing of the second edition to about 1540. However, the types suggest this was much closer to the first edition, and it was probably printed earlier (perhaps even in the same year?).
See G.Bartrum, ' Dürer and his Legacy' exhibition catalogue, London, British Museum, 2002, chapter 11 for Dürer's drawing for this woodcut, and related prints.
CD: watermark: Ha.8
Acquisition date
1895
Acquisition name
Donated by William Mitchell (biographical details | all objects)
Exhibition History
2007 May-Sep, LA, J.Paul Getty Museum, 'Oudry's Painted Menagerie'
2010 Jan- December, BM, History of the World
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