Ridinger, Johann Elias (Ulm 1698 – Augsburg 1767). Hound Badger. / Boar Badger. “There are two badgers of one kind (there are no more in our parts), the one coming creeping up, the other blubbering at him” (Th.). In shrubby hill landscape before a badger’s earth. Colored etching & engraving. Inscribed: Ridinger. sc. / Taxus Caninus. Taxus Suittus. / Hunds Dachs. Schweins Dachs. / Thaison canin. / Thaison de pore. / Familia IV. Fünfzähige. 31.3 x 21 cm.
Thienemann + Schwarz 1067. – In the ORIGINAL COLORING OF THE RIDINGERS from the unnumbered Colored Animal Kingdom finished posthumously in 1768. – Wide-margined, with watermark C & I Honig as that Dutch paper Ridinger used in conformity with his preface to the Main Colors
“ because of the fine illumination ” for the colored works
for “it is the most decent and best for such a task”. – Barely worth mentioning a faint touch of foxing in the white margin below and right, otherwise beautiful as on the first day.
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