Johann Elias Ridinger (Ulm 1698 – Augsburg 1767). How the Stags are stalked in a Deer Park. In spacious, multifariously staged and most richly enacted grounds the two huntsmen behind their overgrown artificial wall with openings. Etching + engraving. (1750.) Inscribed: I. El. Ridinger inv. del. & sculp. / verlegt in Augsburg bey Martin Engelbrecht. 25 x 35.6 cm.
Thienemann + Schwarz 74; Silesian Ridinger collection at Boerner XXXIX, within 1787 (in “newer impression” only, 1885!). – Sheet 6 of the instructive 30-sheet set of the WAYS TO CAPTURE THE WILD ANIMALS (“A rare set”, Schwerdt 1928), as a whole even missing in Helbing’s gigantic offer of 1900, but also one of the five sheets missing there also separately!
The in its painterly conception also pictorially outstanding sheet in a marvelous impression of rich chiaroscuro with 3-4, above 2.5 cm margin around on the prime-quality cloudy paper known for old though somewhat later impressions.
Offer no. 14,667 / price on request