Nashorn Rhinoceros

1748

Johann Elias Ridinger

Artist, German, 1698 - 1767

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    etching on laid paper

  • Credit Line

    Ailsa Mellon Bruce Fund

  • Dimensions

    plate: 34.2 x 28.1 cm (13 7/16 x 11 1/16 in.)
    sheet: 48.5 x 33.4 cm (19 1/8 x 13 1/8 in.)

  • Accession

    2010.32.1

  • Catalogue Raisonné

    Thienemann 1856, no. 295.


Artwork history & notes

Provenance

(Ketter via C. G. Boerner, Düsseldorf); purchased 2009 by NGA.

Associated Names

Bibliography

1856

  • Thienemann, Georg August. Leben und wirken des unvergleichlichen Thiermalers und Kupferstechers Johann Elias Ridinger. Leipzig, 1856: no. 295

Inscriptions

lower right of plate: J. El. Ridinger ad vivum del. fec. et excud A.V.; lower center in plate: Anno 1748 im Monath Maij und Junio / ist dieses Nashorn Rhinoceros... / ...abbildinge weit ubertroff.; by later hand, lower right verso in graphite: 359/41090 7657

Wikidata ID

Q76552610


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