This image was added to the Comte de Buffon’s book at the time of great interest in the possibility of a different species of African rhino. The horns below were in the collection of Louis XV and the Indian rhino with two horns is from Bruce & dates from 1790.
Pl. X Le Rhinoceros d’Afrique. T.28 P. 319 / Les cornes du Rhinoceros. E. Voysard sc. – Plate showing a double-horned rhinoceros [Buffon’s Indian rhino with a second horn added], and two sets of double horns. From a 1800 edition, vol. 28 only – 1800. Histoire naturelle generale et particuliere. Nouvelle edition, accompagnee de notes, redige par Ch.Nic. Sigisbert Sonnini. Paris, F. Dufart [an VIII], vol. 28 [different from another of same year, probably different size]
Étienne Claude Voysard (1746-1807)
