Johann Elias Ridinger (Ulm 1698 – Augsburg 1767). Departure for Hunting. Rich hunting party on horseback including a huntress, too, and numerous hounds. On the right in the middle distance six-in-hand hunting carriage. Etching partly with drypoint by Johann Daniel Hertz I (1693 Augsburg 1754) for Jeremias Wolff just there. (1723.) Inscribed (torso): Joh. Elias Ridinger. Sheet-size: 33 x 48.4 cm.
Thienemann + Schwarz (vol. I, plate III as first state) 9; Weigel, Art Stock Catalog, part XIII (1843), 12586 (as discharge print probably identical with that at Faber-Castell/Hamminger, see below); Coppenrath, part II, 1449 (trimmed on the edge of the subject and “added with small margin”, “extremely rare”, 1889; probably identical with Helbing’s one); Helbing XXXIV (Works by J. E. & M. E. Ridinger, 1554 items; 1900), 8 (“trimmed to platemark”, obviously the Coppenrath copy above); Counts Faber-Castell (1958) 18 (as discharge print from the Hamminger collection [1894], probably identical with Weigel’s copy above).
Plate 1 of the third earliest hunting set of the master completely scarcely to be found (Thienemann: “… which is “not in my possession , but I would like to possess it”, 1856 ! ) in the moreover rare first state magnified once more for itself and dedicated only in this to Lothar Franz von Schönborn (1655-1729), elector of Mayence and prince-bishop of Bamberg, here, however, as a result of trimming with loss of his dedication, too.
Silver-grey impression of the probably 1st state as illustrated by Schwarz, but relating to trimming on the edge of the subject – only above almost throughout with fine platemark – only with the spared signature rest “Ioh. Elias Ridinger” directly on the left beneath the picture and without the said Schönborn dedication and Virgil verse. Some small tears and a thin upper corner backed acid-freely. – Large Fleur-de-lis watermark.
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