A pack of dogs has tracked down a wild boar which in turn succeeded in burying its tusk in the abdomen of one of the dogs. Etching by J.E. Ridinger.

  • Ridinger, Johann Elias, 1698-1767.
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39363i
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The injured dog is somersaulting backward while the rest of the dogs is ferociously biting the boar

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

Physical description

1 print : etching, with engraving ; image 21.6 x 23.9 cm

Lettering

Die wilde Sau oder Schwein. J.E. Ridinger inv. del. sc. et exc. A.V. Lettering continues with ten lines in German describing the boar hunt Bears number top right : VI Bears number (in pencil) bottom left : T 144

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Wellcome Collection 39363i

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