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Johann Elias Ridinger (Ulm 1698 – Augsburg 1767). (Greenlandish Polar Bears.) Mezzotint printed in brown by Johann Elias Haid (1739 Augsburg 1809). Inscribed: Joh. Elias Ridinger pinxt. / Joh. Elias Haid fecit. / Groenlaendische See=Baeren. 28 x 33.2 cm.
Thienemann-Stillfried (1876) + Schwarz (1910) 1386 and Reich auf Biehla 283 ( “… of a very rare sheet”, 1894 ! ), otherwise missing in the important Ridinger collections over more than a hundred years as in the significant properties of dealers. Starting with Thienemann himself (1856) and Weigel (1838/57) over the Silesian Ridinger collection at Boerner XXXIX (1885), Coppenrath (1889/90), Helbing (1900; besides 10 drawings 1030 prints plus states + doubles!), Schwerdt (1828/37), Rosenthal (1940) up to Counts Faber-Castell (1958; 106 drawings, 1239 prints!). Here over the decades nevertheless mediated into Bavarian + Rhenish private collections as two important contemporary ones and now available once more.
Absolutely perfect impression of outmost beauty on wide-margined (2.5-3 cm, here quite light touch of foxing spots) strong laid paper watermarked AMP. Here in the deep brown characteristic of only the early plates which is later replaced by a pale grey. And thus beyond its rarity together a general top item of the 18th century graphics.
Offer no. 14,395 / price on request
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