The Beaver.
J.E. Ridinger at viv. del. J.S. Muller Sculpt.
[British, n.d., c.1780.]
Etching, 340 x 415mm. 13½ x 16¼". Tatty extremities.
Landscape with six beavers, one of them in the centre eating the bark of a tree. Extensive description below title. Numbered '10' lower and upper right. After Johann Elias Ridinger (1698 - 1767) from an English publication of the c.1736 series of natural history and hunting subjects 'Betrachtung der wilden Thiere mit beygefügter vortrefflicher Poesie des hochberühmten Herrn Barthold Heinrich Brockes'.
[Ref: 20558] £220.00
[British, n.d., c.1780.]
Etching, 340 x 415mm. 13½ x 16¼". Tatty extremities.
Landscape with six beavers, one of them in the centre eating the bark of a tree. Extensive description below title. Numbered '10' lower and upper right. After Johann Elias Ridinger (1698 - 1767) from an English publication of the c.1736 series of natural history and hunting subjects 'Betrachtung der wilden Thiere mit beygefügter vortrefflicher Poesie des hochberühmten Herrn Barthold Heinrich Brockes'.
[Ref: 20558] £220.00