Johann Elias Ridinger (Ulm 1698 – Augsburg 1767). The Starting Stag is raised by the Launch Hound! On the right the stag of odd sixteen points takes a high leap over shrubbery, behind him on a long lead the leader held up with all his might by the search groom. From the left three pack hounds let loose come along, front left a piqueur signals with the bugle. Etching and engraving. Inscribed: Joh. El. Ridinger del. sculps. et excud. Aug. Vind., otherwise in German as above along with extensive 10-line subtext in German. 31 x 48 cm.
THE PAR FORCE HUNT OF THE STAG VIII. – Thienemann + Schwarz 56; Weigel, Art Stock Cat., 4a + 16545 (“old now only seldom occurring impressions”, 1847!); Stubbe, Joh. Elias Ridinger, 1966, pp. 15 + plate 7; Solms-Laubach, (The Finest Hunting Pictures from European Collections), 1961, no. 53 with double full-page illustration.
Marvelous impression on strong wide-margined (5.7 cm on the sides, 6-8 cm above and below) line paper watermarked WANGEN uncut on the right and in the right upper margin. – In the left margin traces of former binding, especially in the right white margin negligible acid-free repairs, above larger, below smaller blue trace and weak brown spot and water streak resp. in the white margin. A diagonal fold not noticeable in the subject.
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