Drawing of African double-horned rhinoceros within a blue frame. The animal faces left, and has only the ground shown, no further landscape behind the animal. There are no names of artists.
The rhinoceros is styled after the engraving by De Seve, after Oudry, in the Histoire Naturelle by Buffon. The African rhinoceros was first depicted in editions of 1782.
This item is found among a set of 371 drawings in a bound volume without title-page and without provenance.
Université de Strasbourg, shelf H 16.255
Collection des animaux quadrupèdes : planches coloriées sans texte
The collection is undated, must be after 1764.
https://docnum.unistra.fr/digital/collection/coll13/id/26263/rec/14
Handwritten title:
Comte de Buffon. Quadrupèdes, contenant 371 planches coloriés.
Genève 1754. Paris ?
Digital:
Collections patrimoniales numérisées des bibliothèques de l’Université de Strasbourg
no. 221 two-horned rhinoceros after R.J. Gordon in supplements by J.N.S. Allamand
