Johann Elias Ridinger (Ulm 1698 – Augsburg 1767). Hound Badger. / Boar Badger. “There are two badgers of one kind (there are no more in our parts), the one coming creeping up, the other blubbering at him” (Th.). In shrubby hill landscape before a badger’s earth. Colored etching & engraving. Inscribed: Ridinger. sc. / Taxus Caninus. Taxus Suittus. / Hunds Dachs. Schweins Dachs. / Thaison canin. Thaison de pore. / Familia IV. Fünfzähige. 31.3 x 21 cm.
Thienemann + Schwarz 1067. – In the ORIGINAL COLORING OF THE RIDINGERS from the unnumbered Colored Animal Kingdom finished posthumously in 1768. – Wide-margined, with watermark C & I Honig. – Barely worth mentioning a faint touch of foxing in the white margin below and right, otherwise beautiful as on the first day.
Offer no. 15,455 / price on request