A peacock is bitten to death by a weasel with an apprehensively looking crowd of birds watching the gruelling scene from the safety of tree. Etching by J. E. Ridinger.

  • Ridinger, Johann Elias, 1698-1767.
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A peacock is bitten to death by a weasel with an apprehensively looking crowd of birds watching the gruelling scene from the safety of tree. Etching by J. E. Ridinger. Wellcome Collection. Public Domain Mark. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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Among the birds gathered on the branch are a parrot, a magpie, a kingfisher and a buzzard. The backdrop to the scene is a bucolic idyll, complete with rainbow, cypresses and water cascades

Illustrates a fable about the dangers of supercilious pride

Publication/Creation

[Augsburg] : J. E. Ridinger

Physical description

1 print : etching, with engraving ; image 29.6 x 23.6 cm

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Fabul: VIII: Andere verachtender Stolz wird selbst zu schanden. J. E. Ridinger inv. sculp. et excud. Lettering continues with repeating the German title in French and Latin Bears number (in pencil) bottom left : T 772

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Wellcome Collection 39415i

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