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Albrecht Dürer: The Rhinoceros
Artist	Albrecht Dürer  (1471–1528)       Alternative names Albrecht Dürer Description German painter, printmaker, mathematician, illuminator, copper engraver and art theorist Date of birth/death 21 May 1471  6 April 1528  Location of birth/death Nuremberg Nuremberg Work period 1484 –1528  Work location Nuremberg (1484–1490), Basel (1490–1494), Strasbourg (1490–1494), Colmar (1490–1494), Frankfurt (1490–1494), Mainz (1490–1494), Cologne (1490–1494), Nuremberg (21 May 1494–1528), Innsbruck (1494), Venice (1494–1495), 1505–1506), Bologna (1505–1506), Milan (1505–1506), Florence (1505–1506), Rome (1505–1506), Augsburg (1518), Antwerp (1521) Authority file : Q5580 VIAF: 54146999 ISNI: 0000000120961368 ULAN: 500115493 LCCN: n79118011 NLA: 35051029 WorldCat artist QS:P170,Q5580
Author	Albrecht Dürer  (1471–1528)       Alternative names Albrecht Dürer Description German painter, printmaker, mathematician, illuminator, copper engraver and art theorist Date of birth/death 21 May 1471  6 April 1528  Location of birth/death Nuremberg Nuremberg Work period 1484 –1528  Work location Nuremberg (1484–1490), Basel (1490–1494), Strasbourg (1490–1494), Colmar (1490–1494), Frankfurt (1490–1494), Mainz (1490–1494), Cologne (1490–1494), Nuremberg (21 May 1494–1528), Innsbruck (1494), Venice (1494–1495), 1505–1506), Bologna (1505–1506), Milan (1505–1506), Florence (1505–1506), Rome (1505–1506), Augsburg (1518), Antwerp (1521) Authority file : Q5580 VIAF: 54146999 ISNI: 0000000120961368 ULAN: 500115493 LCCN: n79118011 NLA: 35051029 WorldCat creator QS:P170,Q5580
Title	Latin: Rhinocerus  The Rhinoceros title QS:P1476,la:"Rhinocerus " label QS:Lla,"Rhinocerus " label QS:Les,"Rinoceronte" label QS:Lhu,"Rinocérosz" label QS:Lru,"Носорог" label QS:Lde,"Rhinocerus" label QS:Lfa,"کرگدن دورر" label QS:Lzh,"丟勒的犀牛" label QS:Ltr,"Gergedan" label QS:Lzh-hk,"丟勒的犀牛" label QS:Lsv,"Noshörning" label QS:Lhe,"הקרנף של דירר" label QS:Lzh-hant,"丟勒的犀牛" label QS:Lhi,"गैंडा" label QS:Lko,"뒤러의 코뿔소" label QS:Leo,"Rinocero de Dürer" label QS:Lta,"டியூரரின் காண்டாமிருகம்" label QS:Lit,"Rinoceronte di Dürer" label QS:Lfr,"Rhinocéros" label QS:Lpt,"Rinoceronte" label QS:Lvi,"Rhinocerus" label QS:Lel,"Ρινόκερος" label QS:Lsr-ec,"Direrov Nosorog" label QS:Lsr,"Direrov Nosorog" label QS:Lsl,"Dürerjev nosorog" label QS:Ltl,"Rhinoceros ni Dürer" label QS:Lpt-br,"Rinoceronte" label QS:Lgl,"Rinoceronte de Dürer" label QS:Lca,"Rinoceront de Dürer" label QS:Lpl,"Nosorożec Dürera" label QS:Larz,"لوحة وحيد القرن" label QS:Lnl,"Rhinocerus" label QS:Lja,"犀" label QS:Luk,"Носоріг" label QS:Lhy,"Ռնգեղջյուր" label QS:Lwuu,"丢勒个犀牛" label QS:Len,"The Rhinoceros" label QS:Lar,"لوحة وحيد القرن" label QS:Lzh-hans,"丢勒的犀牛" label QS:Lfi,"Sarvikuono"
Object type	woodcut print
Genre	animal art
Description	English: Print by Albrecht Dürer of a rhinoceros, with textual description.
Date	1515 date QS:P571,+1515-00-00T00:00:00Z/9
Medium	woodcut print on laid paper
Dimensions	height: 23.5 cm (9.2 in) ; width: 29.8 cm (11.7 in)  dimensions QS:P2048,+23.5U174728 dimensions QS:P2049,+29.8U174728
Collection	British Museum    Native name British Museum Location London Coordinates 51° 31′ 10″ N, 0° 07′ 37″ W   Established 1753 Website www.britishmuseum.org Authority file : Q6373 VIAF: 134857252 ISNI: 0000000123428817 ULAN: 500125180 LCCN: n79107735 NLA: 35022119 WorldCat institution QS:P195,Q6373
Accession number	1950-5-24 (Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum)  19.73.159 and 60.708.157 (Metropolitan Museum of Art) 31588 D (Städel Museum) H5582 (Germanisches Nationalmuseum) 1993.9 (Cleveland Museum of Art) 1964.8.697 (National Gallery of Art)
Place of creation	Nuremberg
References	Bartsch's Le Peintre Graveur, 136 (Grav. Bois)  A History of the World in 100 Objects, 75 Albrecht Dürer: Complete woodcuts, 160 Catalogue of Early German and Flemish Woodcuts in the British Museum, Vol. 1, C. D. 125 Kurth's Complete Woodcuts of Albrecht Dürer, 299 http://cvc.instituto-camoes.pt/ciencia/e71.html (Portuguese)  https://www.wga.hu/frames-e.html?/html/d/durer/2/12/6_1520/06rhino.html (English) https://clevelandart.org/art/1993.9 (English) National Gallery of Art artwork ID: 47903  British Museum object ID: P_1895-0122-714
Authority file	: Q748518 VIAF: 190452478 LCCN: no2017117234 GND: 4540702-2 WorldCat
Source/Photographer	Web Gallery of Art:   Image  Info about artwork reference_wga QS:P973,"http://www.wga.hu/html/d/durer/2/12/6_1520/06rhino.html"
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Transcribed German: Nach Christiegeburt / 1513. Jar Adi 1. May hat man dem grossmechtigisten König Emanuel von Portugal / gen Lysabona aus India pracht / ain solch lebendig Thier. das nennen sie Rhinocerus / Das ist hie mit all seiner gestalt abconterfect. Es hat ein Farb wie ein gepsreckelte [sic] Schildkrot / und ist vom dicken schalen uberleget sehr fest / und ist in der gröss als der heillfandt / aber niderichter von baynen und sehr wehrhafftig[.] es hat ein scharffstark horn vorn auff der Nassen / das begundt es zu werzen wo es bey staynen ist / das da ein Sieg Thir ist / des Heilffanten Todtfeyndt. Der Heillfandt fürchts fast ubel / den wo es Ihn ankompt / so laufft Ihm das Thir mit dem kopff zwischen die fordern bayn / und reist den Heilffanten unten am bauch auff / und er würget ihn / des mag er sich nicht erwehren. dann das Thier ist also gewapnet / das ihm der Jeilffandt [sic] nichts Thun kan / Sie sagen auch / das der Rhinocerus / Schnell / fraytig / und auch Lustig / sey.

Translation: Since Christ's birth / year 1513. A[nno ]D[omin]i, on 1 May there was brought to the most puissant King Emanuel of Portugal / to Lisbon from India / just such a living animal. they call it Rhinocerus / It is reproduced here in its complete form. It has a color like a speckled turtle / and [it] is covered very securely with thick scales / and in size it is like the elephant / but shorter in the legs and very well fortified[.] it has a sharp strong horn on the front of the nose / which it takes to whetting wherever there are stones / [They say] that it is a triumphant animal / the elephants' deadly enemy. The elephant fears it terribly / because when he comes upon it / the animal runs at him with the head between the front legs / and tears the elephant's belly from beneath / and that kills him / who could not defend himself. for the animal is so well armed / that the elephant can do nothing to him / They also say, that the Rhinocerus / is quick / glad-tempered / and also lusty.

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• See also: Wikipedia article: Dürer's Rhinoceros

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