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Rhinoceros <!--코뿔소--> - an imaginary art by William Jannsen
| Subject: | Rhinoceros - an imaginary art by William Jannsen
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Rhinoceros - an imaginary art by William Jannsen
Subject: Art Grab Bag 2 - JannsenWm_The_Rhinoceros-sj.jpg
From: Richardson
Newsgroups: alt.binaries.pictures.artpics
Date Posted: Sat, 06 Jan 2001 07:41:24 -0500
The Rhinoceros by William Jannsen
A woodcut by William Jannsen, after 1620,
based on Durer's drawing a century earlier
(reproduced overleaf).
From the British Museum, Dept. of Prints & Drawings.
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| When William Jannsen carved this picture, he had never seen a rhino. Thus this picture was soley based on rumors and his imagination. However this art is so realistic that it had been used in many text books and dictionaries for several hundred years :-) |
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