Johann Elias Ridinger (Ulm 1698 – Augsburg 1767). The Disemboweling of the Hare + Stag. Set of 2 sheet. Etching + engraving. Inscribed: J(oh). E(l). Ridinger inv. del. sc. et exc. A(ug). V(ind)., otherwise in German as below. 36.2 x 28.1 cm.
Thienemann + Schwarz (plt. I, VI f.) 99-100; Weigel XXVIII, Ridinger, 8 A; Nagler 41; Silesian Ridinger collection at Boerner XXXIX, 1788/89 ( “Very rare”, 1885!); Coppenrath Collection II, 1457 ( “Very rare ”, 1889!); Reich auf Biehla Collection 16 (“rare”, 1894!); Schwerdt III, 135; Ortega y Gasset, (Meditations on the Hunt), 1981, ills. pp. 87 + 73; Ridinger Catalogue Darmstadt, 1999, V.1 + 2 with illustrations.
Missing in Helbing’s 1554-sheet offer of 1900 just as in 1940 in that of Rosenthal (444 nos.).
Old, optically, however, a little dry impressions with typographic watermarks and margins 1-1.5 cm wide.
Offer no. 14,661 / price on request