Skip to content
Rhino Resource Center

The world's largest online rhinoceros library dedicated to assisting research and conservation efforts globally.

Image Image

View options

Schreber 1775 Rhinoceros unicornis

1203672927

[Plate 77] LXXVII. Rhinoceros unicornis Linn. [signed lower left] Ioh.El. Ridinger del A.V. [signed lower right] Ioh. Nussbiegel sc. nov.

In the description of plates (p. 280) as LXXVII.A. attributed to Ridinger seltne Thiere tab. 53.

Hand colored etching from Johann Christian Daniel Schreber’s Die Saugthiere in Abbildungen nach der Natur mit Beschreibungen. Walter u. Weigel, Erlangen & Leipzig.Has used the well known print from Ridinger.

Schreber, J.C.D. von 1775. Die Säugthiere in Abbildungen nach der Natur mit Beschreibungen. Erlangen, Wolfgang Walther.

This original plate 77 was substituted with another for R. unicornis indicated by an asterix: plate 77* in the Wagner editions.

Secret Link