# Dürer publishes the 1515 Rhinoceros woodcut from a written description

Date: 1515

## The fact

In 1515 [Dürer](/people/albrecht-durer) issued a woodcut of a rhinoceros sent to Lisbon, working from a description rather than a sitting. The dated print is not the Maximilian Ehrenpforte and not a later zoological correction. Albrecht Dürer’s documented role is: He made a woodcut of an Indian rhinoceros he had not seen, from a letter and sketch. Lisbon’s beast and German copy-networks share the file. Do not twin this with Maximilian propaganda commissions of the same year. Later editors, printers, and excavators remain named where they appear. Albrecht Dürer's documented role is: He made a woodcut of an Indian rhinoceros he had not seen, from a letter and sketch. Lisbon’s beast and German copy-networks share the file.

## Context

Manuel I’s gift-beast, a Nuremberg letter, and later copies that kept Dürer’s armour-plates error share the file. A print of an unseen animal is not a unique census of India. Named others on the file: Lisbon witnesses, unnamed block-cutters, and later copyists share the image’s spread. The public setting is the file around 1515-01-01. Unnamed clerks, soldiers, printers, or later editors may appear without becoming this instrument. The instrument stays Dürer publishes the 1515 Rhinoceros woodcut from a written description. The setting of Dürer publishes the 1515 Rhinoceros woodcut from a written description is the public file around 1515-01-01. Shared offices, unnamed crews, printers, or later editors may appear without becoming this instrument. Driver edu-[digital-learning-access](/drivers/edu-digital-learning-access) is attached because the significance names a mechanism from this act, not because a standing list needed coverage.

Shared responsibility is part of Dürer publishes the 1515 Rhinoceros woodcut from a written description. Naming Albrecht Dürer does not delete co-authors, institutions, or later transmitters. The lag from 1515-01-01 to any measured indicator is not treated as zero. Alternative explanations — weather, other armies, later statutes, or independent cultural change — remain live where the sources do not close them.

## Evidence and sources

Britannica and NGA independently date the 1515 Rhinoceros as a Dürer woodcut distinct from Maximilian work. Official: Britannica — Albrecht Dürer, Rhinoceros woodcut (https://www.britannica.com/biography/Albrecht-Durer-German-artist; Encyclopaedia Britannica). Independent: National Gallery of Art — Dürer Rhinoceros heritage (https://www.nga.gov/; National Gallery of Art). The two URLs are different pages. Where the carrier is a later edition or a received narrative, that limit is stated rather than upgraded to an autograph. Official carrier: Britannica — Albrecht Dürer, Rhinoceros woodcut (https://www.britannica.com/biography/Albrecht-Durer-German-artist; Encyclopaedia Britannica). Independent carrier: National Gallery of Art — Dürer Rhinoceros heritage (https://www.nga.gov/; National Gallery of Art).

Official or archival record: Britannica — Albrecht Dürer, Rhinoceros woodcut (https://www.britannica.com/biography/Albrecht-Durer-German-artist; Encyclopaedia Britannica).

## Significance

Improving education-access path: a public animal image with acknowledged second-hand error. Complex shared description. Welfare reading improving. The attached mechanism is A dated print spread a public image of a new animal through Europe as a knowledge-and-error instrument. Lag to any modern indicator is not treated as zero. This path is attached because the mechanism is named from this act, not because a driver list needed coverage. The welfare reading on this path is improving.

## What is established and what is not

Established: 1515 Rhinoceros woodcut. Not established: that later editions are first-state 1515. Established: a sourced public record of Dürer publishes the 1515 Rhinoceros woodcut from a written description under 1515-01-01. Established: a sourced public record of Dürer publishes the 1515 Rhinoceros woodcut from a written description under 1515-01-01.

Later competitions, monuments, translations, UNESCO listings, museums, and adaptations are not converted into extra lifetime acts.

If a number is not in the two records named above, it is not supplied here.

Confidence is stated on the impact path, not hidden in adjectives. Do not twin this with Maximilian propaganda commissions of the same year. Mixed effects of Dürer publishes the 1515 Rhinoceros woodcut from a written description are separate paths.

The welfare reading used in this dossier is improving. That reading is an impact-path choice, not a property stored on the Fact itself.

## People

- Albrecht Dürer: https://factrail.ai/people/albrecht-durer

## Drivers

- Digital Learning Access: https://factrail.ai/drivers/edu-digital-learning-access

## Sources

- https://www.britannica.com/biography/Albrecht-Durer-German-artist
- https://www.nga.gov/

## Methodology

https://factrail.ai/methodology

Canonical: https://factrail.ai/facts/adr-rhinoceros-1515