Dürer’s woodcut print of a rhinoceros dates to 1515.

Evidence

Dürer’s Rhinoceros is a woodcut print, and it shows a massive beast, nicely identified over its head by the word RHINOCERVS, with the date 1515 above and the AD monogram of the artist below. — Neil MacGregor, A History of the World in 100 Objects, 1157

Categorization

  • corroborated: 2 independent passages support this claim — Neil MacGregor, A History of the World in 100 Objects, 1157