Ridinger, Johann Elias (Ulm 1698 – Augsburg 1767). A Lynx by the Turnpike. Moonlit rocky grotto with the lynx just ready to leap at the dead bird hanging at the cord. Washed brush drawing and pen and brown ink over graphite. 213 x 346 mm.

On thin hand-made paper with typographic watermark. – On the back marginal marks of former mounting in points. Three repaired small marginal tears. Apart from that in perfect condition.

in the same direction, thus  before  its side-inverted version for the transfer on the plate, as preparatory for print 8 – Th. + Schwarz 76; Ridinger-Catalog Darmstadt, 1999, V.11 with ills. – of the 1750 set of the etchings (in mixed technique with engraving) of the Ways to capture the Wild Animals. And by this

a  quite  exceptionally  elitist  collection  item .

For Thienemann (1856, page 274, c) knew from this “most interesting work containing 28 (recte 30) fine and peculiar sheets” (Nagler 1843) drawn by Ridinger from life and etched/engraved by himself with the exception of 8 ones only 3 other preparatory drawings in the possession of Weigel. Provable besides the one in question and a still available further one (Spring-Gun on a Bear) seven others, of which four could be handed over here already in pairs into an internationally magnificent private and important German Ridinger collection resp.

This first-rate 9-sheet block of the Ways to Capture, 7 or 8 of which in the direction of the print, origins from the “Group of the Painterlies” of that high-carat Westphalian collection by whose dissolution lasting for more than a decade beside i. a. sketches and proofs quite a number of of quite extraordinary drawn uniquenesses found back onto the market, too, whose extraordinary charm is determined by their wash. The technique the master knew to win the whole plenty of painterly light effects and contrasting. Present one of the

ambience  rich  lynx  event

then also as executed work in connection with a graphic also within the Ridinger œuvre of greatest rarity nowadays.
Offer no. 14,974  /  price on request

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