Ridinger, Johann Elias (Ulm 1698 – Augsburg 1767). Mountain Stag. Stag of odd 24 points walking down a slope. Downhill on the right park landscape, behind precipice raising. Etching + engraving. (1738.) Inscribed: Birck Hirsch. / J. E. R. fec. / N. 21. 18.4 x 15.5 cm.

Thienemann + Schwarz 437. – Sheet 47 of the Design of Some Animals, here present though in an impression for the Engelbrecht-Herzberg edition of 1825 with the changed number. – Cut typographic watermark (T)hurneisen. – Unsuspicious smoothed out diagonal pressure or folding trace through the upper left corner of the subject.
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