Most  finest  Hounds  by  Ridinger

Ridinger, Johann Elias (Ulm 1698 – Augsburg 1767). Water Hounds, Pomeranian, and Poodle Dogs. A group of four before light shrubbery. Colored etching + engraving. Inscribed: Ridinger, fec. / Canes Aquatici. / Wasser Hunde, Pom(m)er und Budel Hunde. Barbets. / Familia IV. Fünfzähige. 31.6 x 20.3 cm.

Thienemann + Schwarz 1060. – From the unnumbered “Colored Kingdom of the Animals” finished posthumously in 1768. – Wide-margined with large fleur-de-lis watermark. – The new edition published about 1824 by Engelbrecht/Herzberg in Augsburg from shortened plates under omission of the Ridinger signature, but addition of numbering advertised as well colored as black/white, but became known not just to Thienemann, but also till now here in the latter version only.

Thienemann: “… a large and a small poodle (without resemblance to the ones of today whose ancestors were just hunting all-round dogs especially for the hunt on water-fowl), a real pomeranian, and an otter hound.”
Offer no. 14,806 / EUR  390. / export price EUR  371. (c. US$ 516.) + shipping

„ vielen Dank für die schnelle und unkomplizierte Lieferung “

(Herr H.-G. S., 27. August 2008)