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    ‘Figure d’un Elephant’

    Date
    1582
    Object type
    Library reference
    Tracts/X306/2
    Material
    Technique
    Dimensions
    height (print): 162mm
    width (print): 230mm
    Subject
    Description
    Figure of an elephant, viewed from the side.

    In discussing the elephant the author compares the tusks of elephants with the supposed horns of unicorns.

    Illustration from Discours d'Ambroise Pare ... a scavoir, de la mumie, de la licorne, des venins, et de la peste, avec une table des plus notables matieres contenues esdit discours (chez Gabriel Buon, Paris, 1582), f.23.

    Ambroise Paré (c.1510-1590) was a French barber surgeon and anatomist who served several Kings of France.
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