Full capriole straight ahead

The Jerome “Schwarz 1549”
unmasked as doubtful fellow :
S. Jerome as Hermit with hour-glass + death’s-head,
and with the lion of course

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

First time
Patron also against eye-disease
S. Jerome as Cardinal
and with the lion of course

“… particularly fine sheet” :
How the Capercaillies are shot before the Capercaillie dog or Yapper

Ridinger’s Martens, one of which acted as
model for the “Blue Rider” Franz Marc
Beech Marten & Pine Marten
The original printing plates for Th. 475 & 476

Protection from the stroke from the blue sky :
Saint Barbara
Patroness of miners, metallurgical people + tunnel constructors,
gunners + mariners, alchemists, apothecaries + surgeons

The Rare Landscape with Wild Animals of the Rubens Workshop
Tableau de P. P. Rubens. de la Galerie Roïale de Dresde

Document of a moment of German history :
In the Year 1734 this Well-Trained Pointer has been drawn from Nature … inside the Pheasantry by the Imperial Pleasure Seat Nymphenburg at Munich

The Beavers have 2. or three Young Ones,
obtain their strength for breeding the other year; also grow ever more