Albrecht Dürer (1471-1528) - Rhinoceros

Rhinoceros (Tab. XXXVIII) (Plate 38)
Από Matthäus Merian II, μετά Albrecht Dürer

Χαλκογραφία
Amstelodami, Apud loannem Iacobi Fil. Schipper.
MDCLVII. Αμστερνταμ, 1657

Plate dimensions: 17.4 x 29.4 cm (page dimensions: 21.4 x 32.9 cm)

Condition: Minor time toning and chips to the edges of the sheet. Creasing to margins.

Plate 38 features an illustration of an 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.