Albrecht Dürer (1471-1528) - Rhinoceros

Rhinoceros (Tab. XXXVIII) (Plate 38)
Af Matthäus Merian II, efter Albrecht Dürer

Kobberstik
Amstelodami, Apud loannem Iacobi Fil. Schipper.
MDCLVII. Amsterdam, 1657

Plade dimensioner: 17.4 x 29.4 cm (side dimensioner: 21.4 x 32.9 cm)

Tilstand: Mindre tidsældning og små afskalninger i kanterne af arket. Foldninger i margenerne.

Plate 38 features an illustration of a Rhinoceros after the block cut by Albrecht Dürer in 1515, from the 1657 first edition of John Jonston’s “Historiae Naturalis de Quadrupedibus Libri, cum aeneis figuris, Johannes Jonstonus Medicinae Doctor, concinnavit”, the first book of a six-volume work of the animal kingdom, which became a standard 17th-century encyclopaedia of natural history.

Matthäus Merian II (1621-1687) was a portrait painter, engraver and publisher. In 1650, after his father's death, he took over the family printing business.
Jan Jacobz. Schipper (1616-1669), born Jan Dommekracht, was an Amsterdam-based printer, bookseller, and poet.