A Magnificent Stag in a Landscape, 1735

Not on View

Medium

etching with engraving on laid paper

Dimensions

sheet: 45.8 x 30.9 cm (18 1/16 x 12 3/16 in.)
plate: 41.5 x 33.1 cm (16 5/16 x 13 1/16 in.)

Credit Line

Gift of the Ratjen Foundation

Accession Number

2007.111.191

Artists / Makers

Johann Elias Ridinger (artist) German, 1698 - 1767

Image Use

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Inscription

lower center in plate: Disen Hirsch / Haben Ihr Hochfürst: Durch: Carl Alexander / Herzog zu Würtenberg / Anno 1735 der 22. Aug. in den Vorhalder Frickinhauser Huth. / Kirchheimer Forsts selbst geschlossen; lower right in plate: Joh. El. Ridinger del. sculpsit et excut. A.V.; by later hand, lower right in graphite: Thienemann 255

Provenance

Wolfgang Ratjen, Vaduz; Ratjen Foundation, Vaduz; gift of the Ratjen Foundation, 2007.

Associated Names

Ratjen, Wolfgang
Stiftung Ratjen