Johann Elias Ridinger 1698-1767. The Exceptionally Rare Etching Published Augsburg 1748 of The Rhinoceros Clara. 29.3 by 26.6 cms.
Clara The Indian Rhinoceros became extremely famous during her 17 years of touring Europe in the mid-18th century.
She arrived in Rotterdam in 1741, only the fifth living rhinoceros to have been seen in Europe in modern times since Dürers Rhinoceros in 1515.
She was known as the Dutch rhinoceros and received the name Miss Clara in the German town of Würzburg in August 1748.
After tours through towns in the Dutch Republic, The Holy Roman Empire, Switzerland, the Polish Commonwealth, France, the Kingdom of the two Sicilies, the Papal States, Bohemia and Denmark, she sadly died in Lambeth, England in 1758.
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