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Albrecht Dürer, Rhinoceros, 1515

Image for Clone of Albrecht Durer, Rhinoceros (1515)

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Albrecht Dürer, Rhinoceros, 1515

The first video, from the Clark Institute in Williamstown, Massachusetts, provides a brief introduction (2:33) to this famous image.  The second and third videos from the British Museum jointly provide a more extended account (29:13).  An audio commentary on Durer's rhinoceros is also the subject of the 75th episode in the British Museum's History of the World in 100 Objects.

To understand how engraving is done, see the useful description (with moving images) at the Metropolitan Art Museum here.