Hunting: engraved titlepage to Ridinger's "Abbildung der jagtbaren Thiere". Etching by J.E. Ridinger.

  • Ridinger, Johann Elias, 1698-1767.
Date:
1740
Reference:
39383i
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The huntsman and his hound on a long leash are walking into a clearing with a stag in the background. The etching is surrounded by an elaborately patterned frame of foliage, complete with engraved motto "Ducitur ducitque vicissim" (he is led and leads in turn)

Publication/Creation

A[ugustae] V[indelicorum] [Augsburg] : J.E. Ridinger, 1740.

Physical description

1 print : etching, printed in black and red ; image 43.7 x 28.5 cm

Lettering

Abbildung der jagtbaren Thiere mit derselben angefügten Fährten und Spuhren. I.E. Ridinger inv. del. et fe. A.V....Verfertigt und herausgegeben von Johann Elias Ridinger Mahlern in Augspurg. Anno 1740. Ducitur ducitque vicissim The reverse of the page contains the preface to the catalogue to which this print is the titlepage Bears number (in pencil) bottom left : T 169

Reference

Wellcome Collection 39383i

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