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Albrecht Dürer: The Rhinoceros  wikidata:Q748518 reasonator:Q748518 s:de:Rhinocerus (Zeichnung)
Artist
Albrecht Dürer  (1471–1528)  wikidata:Q5580 s:en:Author:Albrecht Dürer q:en:Albrecht Dürer
 
Albrecht Dürer
Alternative names
Albrecht Dürer
Description German painter, printmaker, mathematician, illuminator, copper engraver and art theorist
Date of birth/death 21 May 1471 Edit this at Wikidata 6 April 1528 Edit this at Wikidata
Location of birth/death Nuremberg Edit this at Wikidata Nuremberg Edit this at Wikidata
Work period 1484 Edit this at Wikidata–1528 Edit this at Wikidata
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)
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artist QS:P170,Q5580
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Author
Albrecht Dürer  (1471–1528)  wikidata:Q5580 s:en:Author:Albrecht Dürer q:en:Albrecht Dürer
 
Albrecht Dürer
Alternative names
Albrecht Dürer
Description German painter, printmaker, mathematician, illuminator, copper engraver and art theorist
Date of birth/death 21 May 1471 Edit this at Wikidata 6 April 1528 Edit this at Wikidata
Location of birth/death Nuremberg Edit this at Wikidata Nuremberg Edit this at Wikidata
Work period 1484 Edit this at Wikidata–1528 Edit this at Wikidata
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)
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creator QS:P170,Q5580
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Title
English: The rhinoceros
Object type woodcut print Edit this at Wikidata
Genre animal art Edit this at Wikidata
Description
(Restored contrast) first edition woodcut with complete letterpress text above. Sold at auction in 2013 for $866,500.
Date 1515
date QS:P571,+1515-00-00T00:00:00Z/9
Medium woodcut print
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
institution QS:P195,Q160236
institution QS:P195,Q478695
institution QS:P195,Q6373
institution QS:P195,Q214867
institution QS:P195,Q657415
institution QS:P195,Q1129820
institution QS:P195,Q163804
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Place of creation Nuremberg Edit this at Wikidata
Object history

Sotheby's, London, 15 April 1920, lot 139. With Colnaghi's, London (their stocknumber C. 5548 in pencil verso), purchased at the above sale, sold on 31 March 1955 to Knoedler, New York.

Christie's, New York, 2013
Inscriptions watermark Anchor in Circle (M. 171)
Notes

"Albrecht Dürer The Rhinoceros (B. 136; M., Holl. 241; S.M.S. 241) woodcut with letterpress text, 1515, watermark Anchor in Circle (M. 171), a very good impression of this rare and important woodcut, first edition (of eight), with the complete letterpress text above, with thread margins or trimmed to the borderline at left and right, trimmed just inside the borderline below and to the text above, a small abrasion in the monogram, otherwise in good condition S. 9¼ x 11¾ in. (235 x 298 mm.)" Christie's Lot Description: compare British Museum image

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