Black Fallow Deer , Strong Roebuck
Ridinger, Johann Elias (Ulm 1698 – Augsburg 1767). This Black Fallow-Deer has been shot in the (Hohenlohe) Highgrave Kirchberg Hunting Ground at Thierberg in 1739, with these Rare Antlers, by the Gamekeeper there Job. Jac. Brasoler. Equally this Large and Strong Roebuck with these fine Antlers has been shot in the County Erbach Jan. 5, 1755. Before mighty hedgerow with view of conifers. Etching with engraving by Martin Elias Ridinger (1730 Augsburg 1780). Inscribed: Joh. El. Ridinger del. et direxit Aug. Vind. 1765 / Martin Elias Ridinger sculps. A. V., otherwise in German as before. 34.3 x 26.7 cm.
Sheet 83 (Thienemann + Schwarz 325; Ridinger Catalogue Darmstadt, 1999, VI.22) of the set of the “Representation of the Wondrous Stags and other Animals”.
At which not only after realization here the consequence of the eldest, Martin Elias, as the etcher/engraver of the plate here being up for the Ridinger œuvre is much larger than that of an engaged co-worker only. Already at an age of thirty he just acted as a spiritus rector behind the backstage ensuring that sets were completed as just also the monumental 101-sheet one of the “Wondrous Stags” to which the plate here belongs, too. Of the last 27 works Martin Elias conveyed to the printing-plates alone 21! Without him the plate offered to you here would not be in existence!
And as Wolf Stubbe (Joh. El. Ridinger, Hbg./Bln. 1966, pp. 16 f. + pl. 34), going in medias res, celebrates Th. 722, The Wild Bison and the Crocodile, from the Fights of Killing Animals as an artistic zenith of the late work in respect of its luminous efficiency, he pays tribute together, because judging by the plate, not the drawing, to Martin Elias as the etcher/engraver of that work. An aspect illustrating deeply the Ridinger team-work.
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