“Rarest of all Ridinger sets” :
Johann Elias Ridinger, To the Special Events and Incidents at the Hunt
in individual plates

Far rarer than Dürer’s Saint Hubert –
the equal-sized companion by “the most qualified of the Mantua engravers” :
Giorgio Ghisi, The Allegory of Hunting or
The Hunter Orion carries the Tutelary Goddess Artemis/Diana

“Is one of the greatest amusements of grandseigneurs”
Johann Elias Ridinger, The Water Hunt

In the original coloring from Foreign Field Sports :
Samuel Howitt, A Trap to Shoot the Bear

300 years old hunting statute
of optically & in its contents of extraordinary dimension :
Patent of Maximilian II Emanuel Elector of Bavaria
on the Comprehensive Improvement of the Game Stock
and the Hunting System in Bavaria

Johann Elias Ridinger, The Lion reaches His Complete Strength in the 5^th or 6^th Year,
grows larger even longer and grows very old

When European Values still were worth an Educational Trip
Johann Elias Ridinger, The Vengeance of a Lowly on a Mighty is pernicious

Instructive early didactive piece to the hunt :
Antonio Tempesta, Lion Hunt on Horseback in Classic Manner

Johann Elias Ridinger, The entrance of a Deer Park with two Automatic Doors

With the Augsburg Murderous Camel
Johann Elias Ridinger, Six Plates Camels