A Rare Good Sport
of the Count of Hohenlohe-Öhringen
Ridinger, Johann Elias (Ulm 1698 – Augsburg 1767). Anno 1720. His Excellency the Count of Ohringen (Hohenlohe-Öhringen) himself has shot this entirely white fox close to Ohrenthal (near Öhringen on the Ohrn in the Ohrn district). “The white fox hanging at the hinder leg, beside it a strong greyhound chained up, before a sleeping one and still three other hounds.” Etching + engraving. (1750/53.) Inscribed: Joh. El. Ridinger Sculps. et excud. Aug. Vind., otherwise in German as above. 34.7 x 25 cm.
Thienemann + Schwarz 298; Ortega y Gasset, (Meditations on the Hunt), Stuttgart 1981, full-page ills. p. 65. – Sheet 56 of the Wondrous Stags and other Animals and like the following four other plates there with linings arched at top. – Lower and partly right outer margin barely disturbingly spotted.
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