“ In  Animal  Painting  also  distinguished  themselves …”

Thoman(n) von Hagelstein, Tobias Heinrich (1700 Augsburg 1764). Assault by a Lion on a Fallow-deer hunted by a Bear. Sliding down a rock the lion has grasped the deer while the bear appears above behind a fallen tree. Lower right a fox before a hole as surprised as not unwilling to take his part of the prey of the great game. Especially in view of the anticipated quarrel between them. Mezzotint in brown. Inscribed in the plate: T. Heinr. Thomann del. fec. et excud. A. V. 48.2 x 36.7 cm.

Schwerdt III, 172 ( “interesting” ). – Compare with ADB XXXVIII, 65 f. – Plate 1 of a four-plate suite of not numbered fights of beasts. – Watermark (figurative/typographic?). – Latin-German two-liner:

With surrounding paper margins of 2-2.5 cm. – Smoothed centre fold. – Two small shaves retouched. – Backside evenly slightly browned, namely the white margins just lightly foxing. Otherwise

wonderful  warm-toned  impression

as reserved to only the first 50-60 from the delicate mezzotint plate.

And the younger Thomann himself by the way, so Welisch, (Contributions to the History of the Augsburg Painters in the 18^th Century), 1901, p. 93 further,

“ highly  rated  by  Ridinger , too ”.

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