She spent 5 months in Paris, creating a sensation: letters, poems, and songs were written about her, and wigs were created à la rhinocéros. She was in Reims in December 1748, and was received by King Louis XV in January 1749 at the royal menagerie in Versailles. She returned to Leiden and visited France. In 1748, she visited Bern, Zürich, Basel, Schaffhausen, Stuttgart, Augsburg, Nuremberg and Würzburg. In November she visited the "Gasthof zum Pfau" (The Peacock Inn) in Mannheim, and she was in Strasbourg in December for Christmas. She was in Leipzig on 23 April for Easter, and visited the orangery of the castle of Kassel at the invitation of Frederick II, Landgrave of Hesse. In 1747, she travelled to Regensburg, Freiberg and Dresden, where she posed for Johann Joachim Kaendler from the Meissen porcelain factory and was visited on 19 April by Augustus III, Elector of Saxony and King of Poland. The tour continued to Frankfurt an der Oder, Breslau, and Vienna, where Emperor Francis I and Empress Maria-Theresa saw her on 5 November.Įxample of the mass-produced souvenir pictures of Clara sold by Douwe Mout van der Meer this example from her stay at the Gasthof "Zum Pfau" in Mannheim in November 1747. Clara visited Hanover and Berlin, where King Frederick II of Prussia saw her on 26 April in Spittelmarkt. The tour started in earnest in spring 1746, and proved to be an outstanding success. The carriage had only a small window in order to people would be encouraged to pay to see her.
He had a special wooden carriage built to convey her, which had at least eight horses pulling it. The exhibitions were so successful that Douwe Mout van der Meer left the VOC in 1744 to tour Europe with his rhinoceros. Clara was exhibited in Antwerp and Brussels in 1743 and in Hamburg in 1744. Captain Van der Meer would become Clara's agent and companion until her death.Ĭlara disembarked at Rotterdam on 22 July 1741 and was immediately exhibited to the public. In 1740, Sichterman either sold or gave her as a gift to Douwe Mout van der Meer, captain of the Knappenhof, who returned to the Netherlands with Clara. She became quite tame, and was allowed to move freely around his residence. Sichterman was the director of the Dutch East India Company ( Vereenigde Oostindische Compagnie or VOC) in Bengal. In 1738, aged approximately one month, Clara was adopted by Jan Albert Sichterman in India after her mother was killed by Indian hunters. In 1751, Pietro Longhi painted her in Venice. In 1749, Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon drew her in Paris. In 1748, Johann Elias Ridinger made an etching of her in Augsburg, and Petrus Camper modelled her in clay in Leiden. In the subsequent years, the rhinoceros was exhibited in several European cities.
She was then brought to Amsterdam, where Jan Wandelaar made two engravings that were published in 1747. In 1739, she was drawn and engraved by two English artists. After tours through towns in the Dutch Republic, the Holy Roman Empire, Switzerland, the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth, France, the Kingdom of the Two Sicilies, the Papal States, Bohemia and Denmark, she died in Lambeth, England. She arrived in Europe in Rotterdam in 1741, becoming the fifth living rhinoceros to be seen in Europe in modern times since Dürer's Rhinoceros in 1515. 1738 – 14 April 1758) was a female Indian rhinoceros who became famous during 17 years of touring Europe in the mid-18th century. Portrait of Clara in Paris in 1749, by Jean-Baptiste Oudry.Ĭlara ( c.
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