article_snippet: This is a copy of Dürer's rhino, made in 1558, which was based on a written description.
article_snippet: This has fantastical armour and a strange shoulder horn, and became an enduring image of rhinos for Europeans .
article_snippet: This trunked elephant is taken from a 13th century manuscript engraving drawn in 1241 before the artist, Matthew Paris, had seen one.
article_snippet: It seems to show people using the animal himself as transport while people play music .
article_snippet: It was based on a written description and has fantastical armour and a strange shoulder horn.
article_snippet: Despite the inaccuracies, It became an enduring image of rhinos for Europeans.
article_snippet: An elongated elephant that almost looks like a cartoon and features a band of humans playing instruments on a cartoon back, was found in a 13th century manuscript.
article_snippet: Matthew Paris drew it before Matthew Paris had seen one, but a later painting is more accurate because Matthew Paris based a later painting on an elephant that Matthew Paris saw in the Tower of London, which once housed a menagerie of animals.
article_snippet: This 17th century drawing has been done by someone who has not seen a real lion .
article_snippet: This elephant is from the same 13th century manuscript as the other elephant, but was drawn in 1255 after Matthew Paris had seen an elephant in the Tower of London.
article_snippet: St Jerome in St Jerome Study: German artist Albrecht Dürer probably sourced German artist Albrecht Dürer image of the lion (pictured) from elsewhere, which may help to explain the beast's strange appearance.
article_snippet: This image shows a very early accurately portrayed rhino, based on observations of the live animal, Clara.
article_snippet: This image comes from a book called Tabulae scleti et Muscularum Corporis Humani by Bernhard Siegfried Albinus, 1747 .