Fable III, plate three from Lehrreiche Fabeln aus dem Reiche der Theire

1743

Dating: Exact year
Held at: Art Institute of Chicago
Medium: Etching on ivory laid paper
Dimensions: Image: 37.3 × 30 cm (14 11/16 × 11 13/16 in.); Plate: 42.2 × 32 cm (16 5/8 × 12 5/8 in.); Sheet: 52.6 × 36.7 cm (20 3/4 × 14 1/2 in.)
Collection no.: 2013.462
Attribution: By the artist
Image rights: CC0 1.0License details

Johann Elias Ridinger. Fable III, plate three from Lehrreiche Fabeln aus dem Reiche der Theire, 1743. Inventory 2013.462. Johann Elias Ridinger; Art Institute of Chicago. Collection credit: Gift of Dorothy Braude Edinburg to the Harry B. and Bessie K. Braude Memorial Collection. CC0 1.0 (https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/). https://www.artic.edu/artworks/153573. Full-frame proportional resize and JPEG compression.

Collection: Art Institute of Chicago

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Fable III, plate three from Lehrreiche Fabeln aus dem Reiche der Theire — Johann Elias Ridinger. 1743.

Medium: Etching on ivory laid paper. Dimensions: Image: 37.3 × 30 cm (14 11/16 × 11 13/16 in.); Plate: 42.2 × 32 cm (16 5/8 × 12 5/8 in.); Sheet: 52.6 × 36.7 cm (20 3/4 × 14 1/2 in.).

Collection record: Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago. Museum connection according to this source; current display unverified.

Source: official collection record. Metadata selected and normalized by Artline from the source export, accessed 10 September 2026; no museum endorsement. Reproduction rights are separate.

Location checked Sep 10, 2026. This does not indicate whether the work is on display.

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