Deutsch“ Back to the Sources , to the Mothers ”
(Gottfried Benn)
The text was present ! Indeed , it is there still today !!
Ridinger, Johann Elias (Ulm 1698 – Augsburg 1767). The Badger captured with the Turnpike. Etching with engraving. Inscribed: I. El. Ridinger inv. del. & sculp. / verlegt in Augsburg bey Martin Engelbrecht, otherwise as before and with the following 4-line subtext, all in German. 25.6 x 36.1 cm.
Sheet 23 (Thienemann + Schwarz 91) of the Ways to capture the Wild Animals of 1750. – One the four puzzling deviations (Th. 74, 75, 89, 91) of the set which from early on bear the address of Martin Engelbrecht (1684-1756, the equal-named publishing house till 1827) in Augsburg and – with the exception of Thienemann + Schwarz – are only known in impressions without the explaining subtext and thus had been qualified hitherto predominantly as “Proofs” (Schwerdt, 1928, for Th. 74, 75 + 89), “Early impressions before the text” of the otherwise “four sheets published only later” (L’Art Ancien, 1939, on occasion of the Schwerdt copy), “Impressions before the letter, just with the artist’s name and address” (Counts Faber-Castell, 1958), “Proofs on laid paper with inscription + Engelbrecht address, but before title and subtext” (herself, 1978, with the first reference on the poorly described marks and the order of the states).
Present here now
with the text
but , mark you , also with the Engelbrecht address
à la Schwarz 74, 89 + 91 and by this
an arthistorical sensation of high degree !
Inestimable precious for any Ridinger collection of high degree !
Ref. no. 15,011 / in stock – not catalogued / request description & offer