G1141: Rhinoceros
PrintsIts body looks like a chiseled armored shell of various plates that follow the shape of its head, belly, shoulders, legs, and back. Various textures define the dimensionality and contour of the animal. The solid legs are covered in scale-like texture with hooved feet. The large horn above its nose abuts the drawn border line of the print, the mouth is closed. Background is minimal with only the suggestion of the ground it stands on. Text in upper right corner: 1515 / RHINOCERVS / AD
Identification and Creation
- Object Number
- G1141
- People
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Albrecht Dürer, German (Nuremberg 1471 - 1528 Nuremberg)
- Title
- Rhinoceros
- Classification
- Prints
- Work Type
- Date
- 1515
- Places
- Creation Place: Europe, Germany
- Culture
- German
- Persistent Link
- https://hvrd.art/o/274068
Physical Descriptions
- Medium
- Woodcut printed in black ink on white antique laid paper
- Technique
- Woodcut
- Dimensions
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block: 21.3 × 29.7 cm (8 3/8 × 11 11/16 in.)
sheet: 22.3 × 30 cm (8 3/4 × 11 13/16 in.) - Inscriptions and Marks
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watermark: Meder watermark 224
note on old mat: eagle: eagle - inscription: at upper right, date, woodcut title and artists monogram printed in black ink: 1515 / RHINOCERVS /AD
- inscription: in lower sheet margin, typographically printed in black ink: Men vintse te coope by Hendrick Hondius Plaetesnÿder in s'Gravenhage.
- inscription: verso, various graphite inscriptions: No 74 / No 44005 / e/v / No 711[?] [underlined]
- collector's mark: verso, purple stamp with accession number written in graphite: GRAY COLLECTION, / 1141 / HARVARD COLLEGE. [within an oval borderline (Lugt 4836)]
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watermark: Meder watermark 224
Provenance
- Recorded Ownership History
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Francis Calley Gray, bequest; to William Gray, his nephew, 1856, gift; to Harvard University, 1857
State, Edition, Standard Reference Number
- State
- Meder 6th edition out of 8
- Edition
- 6th
- Standard Reference Number
- Bartsch 136; Koehler 299; Meder 273
Acquisition and Rights
- Credit Line
- Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Gift of William Gray from the collection of Francis Calley Gray
- Object Number
- G1141
- Division
- European and American Art
- Contact
- am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
- Permissions
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Exhibition History
- Re-View: S426A (Large Niche) HAA252k The Age of Durer, Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum, Cambridge, 11/13/2008 - 02/06/2009
- A Colloquium in the Visual Arts, Harvard Art Museums, Cambridge, 08/27/2022 - 12/30/2022
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