John Philip de Haas by Charles Willson Peale https://www.nga.gov/artworks/1103-john-philip-de-haas
[3] his estate; sold as part of the Clarke collection 29 January 1936, through (M.
[3] his estate; sold as part of the Clarke collection 29 January 1936, through (M.
The text at the top of this print states in German: “On 1 May 1513 was brought from India to the great and powerful king Emanuel of Portugal to Lisbon such a live animal called a rhinoceros.” As we can now tell from this intricately carved woodcut, the artist Albrecht Dürer never actually saw the animal.
Hat man dem groszmechtigen Kunig von Portugall Emanuell gen Lysabona pracht ausz
So pand er sich aber gen Zell gerglöbet I ward Er desselben abentz clar sehen.
Als er sich gen Zell verheiss/ ward Er an all menschlich hilff von stundan ledig
Als pald sy jr man gen Zell verheiss mit ainem opffer/ ward sy an all annder Ertzney
Wishes / Jesse Owens; on verso, by unknown hand, top left in graphite: Mon Press – gen
Und als er Mariam anrüeffet/und sich gen Zell mit ainem opffer versprach. ward im
Maryland, The Maryland Institute and Municipal Art Society, Baltimore, 1921, no. 9, as Gen
Associated Names Cunliffe, 3rd Bt., Foster, Sir Cunliffe, 4th Bt., Robert Henry, Gen
Georges de Bellio [1828-1894], Paris; probably by inheritance to M et Mme [she, née