Nashorn Rhinoceros
1748
Artist, German, 1698 - 1767

Artwork overview
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Medium
etching on laid paper
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Credit Line
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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
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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