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Clara the Rhinoceros
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ISBN13: 9789462087477
Publisher: Nai010 Publ
Published: Jan 17 2023
Pages: 208
Weight: 0.90
Height: 0.80 Width: 5.90 Depth: 8.30
Language: English
A visual history of the 18th-century rhinoceros and her unusual life as cultural icon and captive creature
In 1741 a ship arrived in the Netherlands carrying a miraculous animal that few people in Europe had seen before: a young female rhinoceros from India named Clara. For 17 years, Clara traveled with her owner Douwe Mout through almost every country in Europe. Wherever she appeared, she made a sensation, becoming the most famous rhino in European history. Artists such as Jan Wandelaar, Johann Elias Ridinger, Petrus Camper, Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon and Pietro Longhi immortalized her in paintings, drawings, sculptures and medals; she even influenced fashion; and she permanently corrected the false image of a rhinoceros perpetuated by D�rer in his famous 1515 engraving.
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