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Vico 1548 Lisbon rhino
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Vico 1548 Lisbon rhino

Author: Enea Vico (1523-1567)
Year: 1548
Description: This engraving by the young Florentine Enea Vico (1523-67) was the first important artist to copy Dürer's woodcut and helped to popularize the image. It was published by Antonio Salamanca in Rome.<br><br>Copper engraving, 25 x 35 cm<br>This example in Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, Kupferstichkabinett, no. 791-143
Faust 2003, p. 16 (no. 689.1 and 689.2). T
here are two states of the engraving. In the first, there is no indication of the publisher. In the second, the text has this addition: Ant. Sal. exc., i.e. Antonio Salamanca excudit.
Italian text of engraving<br>[Upper left corner]<br>1548<br>RHINOCERUS<br>E. V.<br><br>[text in 2 ½ lines beneath the image of the rhinoceros:]<br>Nascano questi Animali nelle diserte montagne del’India. E’dilane su portato uno in Portogallo, del quale fedelimente e fatto questo ritratto; e come gui si comprende e di Scaglie’ durissime coperto, della similitudine. & colore di quelle de la Testuggine. Et è di grandezza degli Elefanti, coni quali filio guerra, et ne sono vittorioso och essendo di ueloce corso, gli danno de urto totto il corpo, et las pelle con le scaglie asprissime gli squarciano, Et co’ l’anito del corno che sopra il naso tengano gli at terrano, Chiamasi Rinocerus, ô vero Rinoceronte.
Location: Captive
Subject: Captivity
Species: Indian Rhino
File Size: 1.483 kb
Dimensions: 3500x2499 px
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