Johann Elias Ridinger Etching The Rhinoceros Clara 1748 Shipwreck Oil on panel

Oil on panel

Century French School Circa 1768

Noted late 18th

Provenance: Sir Robert Robinson (1886-1975) of Gt Missenden Bucks

including several showing the dance school run by Enrico Cecchetti in London

Johann Elias Ridinger Etching The Rhinoceros Clara 1748 Shipwreck Oil on panelJohann Elias Ridinger 1698 1767. The Exceptionally Rare Etching Published Augsburg 1748 of The Rhinoceros Clara. 29. 3 by 26. 6 cms. Clara The Indian Rhinoceros became extremely famous during her 17 years of touring Europe in the mid 18th century. She arrived in Rotterdam in 1741, only the fifth living rhinoceros to have been seen in Europe in modern times since Drers Rhinoceros in 1515. She was known as the Dutch rhinoceros and received the name Miss