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Rhinoceros
Albrecht Dürer (German, 1471–1528)
1515
Medium/Technique
Woodcut with letterpress
Dimensions
Block, with inscription: 23.5 x 30.1 cm (9 1/4 x 11 7/8 in.)
Credit Line
Museum purchase with funds by exchange from the Katherine E. Bullard Fund in memory of Francis Bullard
Accession Number68.247
NOT ON VIEW
CollectionsEurope, Prints and Drawings
ClassificationsPrints
Catalogue Raisonné
Bartsch (relief) 136; Meder 273, I; Schoch, Mende, Scherbaum 241, first ed.
Marks
Verso bottom center and bottom right 2 brown ink stamps "Tomas Harris"
Verso black ink stamp "BRITISH MUSEUM 1589-1585"
Verso brown ink stamp "BRITISH MUSEUM DUPLICATE" (Lugt 305) with pen & brown ink "A.E.P" at the center of the stamp
Verso black ink stamp "BRITISH MUSEUM 1589-1585"
Verso brown ink stamp "BRITISH MUSEUM DUPLICATE" (Lugt 305) with pen & brown ink "A.E.P" at the center of the stamp
InscriptionsVerso in graphite: 1st state, 1589, 6218ref, no. 176; bottom edge of mount in graphite: TRP. coll BM - 370, The Rhinocerus/(1st state), B.136, CD125, M273, K.299
ProvenanceTomás Harris (b. 1908 - d. 1964), London. 1968, P. & D. Colnaghi & Co., London; 1968, sold by Colnaghi to the MFA. (Accession Date: June 12, 1968)