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Clara the rhinoceros.   (Wikidata search (Cirrus search) Wikidata query (SPARQL)  Create new Wikidata item based on this file)
Artist
Anonymous (Low Countries)Unknown author
Title
Clara the rhinoceros.
Date 1747
date QS:P571,+1747-00-00T00:00:00Z/9
Medium etching print
letterpress print
Dimensions height: 44.9 cm (17.6 in); width: 55.8 cm (21.9 in)
dimensions QS:P2048,44.9U174728
dimensions QS:P2049,55.8U174728
institution QS:P195,Q190804
Current location
Frederik Muller Historieplaten
Accession number
RP-P-OB-75.362
Object history 1881: purchased by the Rijksmuseum Amsterdam, Amsterdam
Inscriptions

top:

In dem 1747ten Jahr, CARL THEODOR Durchläucht im Pfau war, / Den zwartzigsten Tag Novembris Sie diesen Tag sich auserkieß, / Herzog Christian Prinz Friedrich auch, bende Durchläuchten nach Gebrauch, / zu gleicher Zeit sich fanden ein, wo der Rhinoceros solt seyn, / Durchläucht auch unsere Churfürstin, und Pfaltz-Gräffin es kam in Sinn, / Zu sehen dieses Wunder-Thier, so niemahl nicht gewesen hier, / Weil nun meinem Hauß Heyl wiederfahren, die Kösten auch nicht wolte spahren, / Zu letzten diese Zeilen bey, welches ein steths Andencken sey, / Die ich in Demuth sonst verbleibe, / und Dero Magd mich unterschreibe. // Maria Barbara Endtin / Pfau-Wirthin.

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Vera effigies Rhinocerotis qui in Asia, et qvidem in terris Magni / Mogutis, in regione Assem captus est et Anno 1741 cum tres annos / vixerit, a Captän Douwemout van der meer ex Bengal: in Belgia trans- / latus ets.

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Le véritable Portrait d'un Rhinocerot vivant leqvel dans l'année 1741 / qvand il avait trois ans à été pris en Asie dans l'Empire du Grans Mogol / ala Province d'Asem ela été ammene de Bengala en Hollande par le Capitaine / Douwemout van der meer.

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dat bovem genoemde dier is geweest in de maant may 1741 / 8½ Jaar oud en 5 voet en 7 duym hoogen 12 Voet lang, en 12 voet dick.

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Waare Afbeelding van Een leevendighe Renoceros of Naashooren / die int Jaar 1741 als hel drie Jaar oud is geweest door den Capleyn / Douwemout van der meer uyt Bengalen in Holland is overgebragt en / is in Asia gevangen int Gebiet van den Groote Mogul in Landschapp Assem

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A true delineation or Portraicture of aliving Rhinoceros (by Some / calleg Unicorn)which, in the third year of its age was brought out of Beng[...] / lavit Holland by Captaine Douwemout Anno 1741 It is cath dwithin / the Gross Moguls teritories inthe Province of Asem.

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Douwemout vander / meer / geboren den 12 April 1705.
References Rijksmuseum Amsterdam online catalogue.
Source/Photographer www.rijksmuseum.nl : Home : Info


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Example of the mass-produced souvenir pictures of Clara sold by Douwe Mout van der Meer; this example from her stay at the Gasthof "Zum Pfau" in Mannheim in November 1747.

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