Ridingeriana rarity of degree
Charles Frederick Prince of HohenzollernSigmaringen shoots this Stag Of odd 18 points
Antlers design to Th. 353 sent by the princely court to the Ridingers for rendering in copper

The Beaver

The noble game — from old noble estate :
The Deer’s Four Times of Day

“As a Rarity was paid for Very Dearly in 1743”
and instantaneously transferred into copper by Ridinger
This Young Tiger Horse had this Ear-Bouquet of black color
The original printing plate for Th. 280

The Mindless Age
becomes Contemptuous by Childish Expression

First scientific representation of the rhinoceros
RHINOCEROS. Nasehorn. Rhinocerot
Drawn by Ridinger “from life” in Augsburg 1748

Three princely hunted stags :
In 1728 His Princely Highness Carl Alexander Duke of Wurttemberg
shot this stag No. 1. in a hunt near Jagodin in the kingdom of Serbia

The Four Seasons

“The programmatic mezzotint” :
IOH. ELIAS RIDINGER Pictor et Scalptor Augustanus

The hunting luck of Frederick’s general
These stags N^o. 1 and N^o. 2 … N^o. 3 … And the N^o. 4
&
These Roe Bucks … The N^o. 1 … the N^o. 2 … N^o. 3 … And finally also N^o. 4. …