“The strongest jumper”
Ibex. Le Bouquetin

First time
Ridinger’s Memento Mori in the first state :
Memento Mori

“The Capercaillie is the Noblest among all Wood Birds”
The Capercaillie Display. La Sur prise des Coqs de Bois

In visibly deviating earlier state :
The Sweet Captivity
after Bouchers “Les amours pastorales”

World World — Oh Oh

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

“O unjust lightning, how blind is your judgement:
The innocence you find, the vice you don’t see!”
Black clouds darken valley and forest

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

First time :
The largest Ridinger of the graphic œuvre
with the boar hound as trademark :
Siege + Conquest of Halicarnassus
by Alexander the Great

By the hand of Johann Jacob ?
Many Lynxes are the Deer’s Death
Swell Ridingerianum — by each fresh look more fascinating