'Figure du combat du Rhinoceros contre l'Elephant' Size:L: 75 x 60cm A donkey eats a lettuce

A donkey eats a lettuce whilst two urchins offer leaves to the horse

with a passenger

VIEW FROM THE SOUTH WEST

View showing the New River in the foreground

'Figure du combat du Rhinoceros contre l'Elephant' Size:L: 75 x 60cm A donkey eats a lettuceFantastical scene of battle between a rhinoceros and an elephant in a wooded landscape. Three stages of the contest are shown in the foreground, middle and far distance. Elsewhere a human hunter armed with a bow is shown in a tree, hunting elephants. This print originally appeared in Andre Thevet's La cosmographie universalle (1575). Illustration from Discours d'Ambroise Pare a scavoir, de la mumie, de la licorne, des venins, et de la peste, avec une