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Landscape. A Village with a Church Spire.
by loi/zz.), signed and dated 1510, in the Collection
Collotype from the pen and ink drawing (8i
of M. Leon Bonn at.* Laris (L. 355).
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Three Studies of a Tilting Helm.
Collotype from the brush drawing (162 hy 1 oiin f signed and dated 1514, in the Collection of M. Leon
Bonnat^ Paris (L. 357).
The helm, which appears to have served as a model for Diirer’s two heraldic engravings
B. 100, 101, is drawn in three positions, from the side, front and back. The metal is painted in steel
blue, the laces are reddish and the straps of a greenish tint, the knobs yellow. The monogram and
date are added with pen and ink.
XII.
The Rhinoceros. 1515.
Collotype (reduced} from the original drawing (10I by 162/7/.), in the British Museum, from the
Sloane Collection. (L. 257. Lphr. p. 202}.
The animal is represented standing in profile to the left with its head lowered. The general
form and proportions are correct, but the skin is fantastically patterned with ribs, folds, plates and
scales. Above is the word RHINOCERON with the date 1515, and, below, the following inscription
in Diirer’s handwriting:—“It(eni} Im 153 lor adi i may hat man vnserm kung y>an portigall gen
hsabona procht ein solch lebendig tir aws India das nent man Rhynocerate das hab Ich dir van wunders
wegen musen abkunterfet schicken hat ein farb wy ein krot vnd van dickn schaln uherleg fast fest vnd
1st In dr gros als ein helffant aber nydrer vnd ist des helffantz tott feint es hat forn affder nasen ein
starck scharbf horn vnd so dz tir an helfant kumt mit Im zw fechtn so hat es for alb eg sein horn an
den steinen scharbff gewestzt 'vnd layft dem helfant mit dem kypff zvdschn dy fordern peyn dan reist er
den helfant awf wo er am dunstn hawt hat vnd erzurgt In also der helfant furcht In ser ubell den
Bhynocerate dan er erwurgt In albeg wo er den helfant ankycmt T)an er ist woll gewapent vnd ser
freidig vnd behent Dz tir wurt Rhinocero In greco et latino Indico vero gandad (The last word in
previous transcripts has been printed “ gomda,” which is incorrect; “genda,” which is said to be the
Hindi name of the animal, is written “ganda” by several Portuguese historians, and by Diirer).
In English: “Item in the year 1513, on May ist, they brought our King of Portugal at
Lisbon such a beast alive from India, which they call a Rhinoceros. For the wonder’s sake I have had
to send you a likeness of it. It has a colour like a tortoise and is covered nearly all over with thick
scales, and in size is like the elephant but lower, and is the elephant’s mortal enemy. It has in front
on its nose a strong sharp horn, and when the beast comes at the elephant to fight him it has always
first whetted its horn sharp against the stones and runs at the elephant with its head between his
forelegs, and rips him up where he has the skin thinnest and so kills him. The elephant is very badly
afraid of the rhinoceros, for it kills the elephant whenever it comes at him, for it is well armed and
very lively and active. This beast is called cRhinoceros’ in Greek and Latin, but in Indian c Ganda.’”
The account of the combat between rhinoceros and elephant is derived from Diodorus Siculus
(III. xxxv. 2). That author, however, adds that if the elephant can succeed in catching the
rhinoceros with his trunk before the latter has got its horn in, the victory is with the elephant, who
sheer strength.
can
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by loi/zz.), signed and dated 1510, in the Collection
Collotype from the pen and ink drawing (8i
of M. Leon Bonn at.* Laris (L. 355).
XL
Three Studies of a Tilting Helm.
Collotype from the brush drawing (162 hy 1 oiin f signed and dated 1514, in the Collection of M. Leon
Bonnat^ Paris (L. 357).
The helm, which appears to have served as a model for Diirer’s two heraldic engravings
B. 100, 101, is drawn in three positions, from the side, front and back. The metal is painted in steel
blue, the laces are reddish and the straps of a greenish tint, the knobs yellow. The monogram and
date are added with pen and ink.
XII.
The Rhinoceros. 1515.
Collotype (reduced} from the original drawing (10I by 162/7/.), in the British Museum, from the
Sloane Collection. (L. 257. Lphr. p. 202}.
The animal is represented standing in profile to the left with its head lowered. The general
form and proportions are correct, but the skin is fantastically patterned with ribs, folds, plates and
scales. Above is the word RHINOCERON with the date 1515, and, below, the following inscription
in Diirer’s handwriting:—“It(eni} Im 153 lor adi i may hat man vnserm kung y>an portigall gen
hsabona procht ein solch lebendig tir aws India das nent man Rhynocerate das hab Ich dir van wunders
wegen musen abkunterfet schicken hat ein farb wy ein krot vnd van dickn schaln uherleg fast fest vnd
1st In dr gros als ein helffant aber nydrer vnd ist des helffantz tott feint es hat forn affder nasen ein
starck scharbf horn vnd so dz tir an helfant kumt mit Im zw fechtn so hat es for alb eg sein horn an
den steinen scharbff gewestzt 'vnd layft dem helfant mit dem kypff zvdschn dy fordern peyn dan reist er
den helfant awf wo er am dunstn hawt hat vnd erzurgt In also der helfant furcht In ser ubell den
Bhynocerate dan er erwurgt In albeg wo er den helfant ankycmt T)an er ist woll gewapent vnd ser
freidig vnd behent Dz tir wurt Rhinocero In greco et latino Indico vero gandad (The last word in
previous transcripts has been printed “ gomda,” which is incorrect; “genda,” which is said to be the
Hindi name of the animal, is written “ganda” by several Portuguese historians, and by Diirer).
In English: “Item in the year 1513, on May ist, they brought our King of Portugal at
Lisbon such a beast alive from India, which they call a Rhinoceros. For the wonder’s sake I have had
to send you a likeness of it. It has a colour like a tortoise and is covered nearly all over with thick
scales, and in size is like the elephant but lower, and is the elephant’s mortal enemy. It has in front
on its nose a strong sharp horn, and when the beast comes at the elephant to fight him it has always
first whetted its horn sharp against the stones and runs at the elephant with its head between his
forelegs, and rips him up where he has the skin thinnest and so kills him. The elephant is very badly
afraid of the rhinoceros, for it kills the elephant whenever it comes at him, for it is well armed and
very lively and active. This beast is called cRhinoceros’ in Greek and Latin, but in Indian c Ganda.’”
The account of the combat between rhinoceros and elephant is derived from Diodorus Siculus
(III. xxxv. 2). That author, however, adds that if the elephant can succeed in catching the
rhinoceros with his trunk before the latter has got its horn in, the victory is with the elephant, who
sheer strength.
can
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