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Clara visits Hamburg

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Wahre Abildung des Rinoceros oder Nasenhorns. welches anjetzo in Hamburg zu sehen; ist 4 ½ Jahr alt.

One of two prints that suggest that Clara began her extensive journey through europe by first visiting Hamburg. Dürer’s model is used with the only touch of realism being a broken horn.

Hamburg, Staatsarchiv, Plankammer, Naturgeschichte, Zoologie, Mappe 282-15, 4. Aus der Sammlung Gaedeckens-Grimer, Dezember 1908.

 

Faust 2003, no. 705

Clarke 1986: 45,

Heikamp 1980:311, fig. 10 – illustrated

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