broadside;
print
- Museum number
- 1877,0609.71
- Title
- Object: Rhinocerus (Rhinoceros)
- Description
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A rhinoceros; colour woodcut of a rhinoceros standing in profile to the right, the tone block printed in light olive green, without any text, from the seventh edition published by Janssen in Amsterdam after 1620. 1515
Woodcut
- Production date
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1515 (first edition)
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1620 (after (seventh edition))
- Dimensions
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Height: 213 millimetres
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Width: 300 millimetres
- $Inscriptions
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- Curator's comments
- It is unclear whether this is a fragment of a broadside, or whether, as suggested by Meder, this edition was never printed with text.
This edition was published by Willem Janssen, printed after 1620.
See Dürer and his Legacy, BM exh.cat. (2002), chapter 11.
- Location
- Not on display
- Exhibition history
-
2013 Oct-Dec, Warwickshire, Compton Verney, Curious Beasts
2014 March-May, Belfast, Ulster Museum, Curious Beasts
2014 June-Aug, Hull, Ferens Art Gallery, Curious Beasts
2016-2017 21 Oct-5 Feb, Adelaide, South Australian Museum: ‘Curious Beasts’
- Acquisition date
- 1877
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Registration number
- 1877,0609.71