Wood engraving, 280x160 mm, sheet 355x230 mm. The engraving is the work of David Kandel, whose initials can be read engraved in the matrix. Taken from the well-known representation by Albrecht Dürer included in Sebastian Münster's Cosmographia Universalis. In the upper part of the sheet within the frame is an Indian elephant, carrying a group of soldiers on its back; the reference on the same page to the rhinoceros is symbolic, according to Pliny, of the enmity between the two animals. Below is the image of the Rhinoceros, harnessed in elaborate armour. Curious are the vicissitudes of the Indian rhinoceros, which belonged to the Sultan of Gujarat in western India, who donated it in 1514 to the Portuguese Indian mission in Goa; However, the fathers did not know what to do with the enormous pachyderm and embarked it for Lisbon to give it to Manuel I, King of Portugal, but even the king did not keep the rhinoceros; after placing it in his garden in the Ribeira and showing it to the court as an object of wonder, the king had it embarked for Rome to give it to Leo X. But before letting it leave, he had it fight with an elephant, against which it won. The ship with the unfortunate rhinoceros, off the coast of La Spezia, unfortunately sank and the poor animal arrived in Rome only stuffed. Thanks to a sketch by Valentim Fernandes, a Portuguese artist, who portrayed the rhinoceros while it was still alive, Dürer was able to make two pen and ink sketches; the second draft, in particular, was used by him to create the famous woodcut; without ever having seen the rhinoceros. The iconic image of this animal was later reproduced by Hans Burgkmair, Dürer's pupil. Conrad Gesner used the image to illustrate the rhinoceros in his Historiæ animalium and later by Sebastian Münster for his Cosmographia Universalis.