Ridinger, Johann Elias (Ulm 1698 – Augsburg 1767). Der nach Honig suchende Baehr (The Bear Looking for Honey). Etching + engraving. (1738.) Inscribed in the plate: J. E. Ridinger inv. fec. et exc. Aug. Vind. / N. 39., title as above. 18,5 x 14,8 cm.
Thienemann + Schwarz 429. – Plate 39 (in later edition 70) of the suite Design of Several Animals (“These plates are much wanted”, Th. 1856). – Wide-margined wonderful impression of the 1st edition.
“ Sitting beyond a hollow trunk in which a swarm of bees resides and trying to get rid of the bees (buzzing all around) stinging him in the face. ”
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