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Ridinger, Johann Elias (Ulm 1698 – Augsburg 1767). The Fair Game Hounded by the Different Kinds of Hounds. With annotations how such are hunted, attacked, catched, held fast, brought down, and partly throttled by them … presented and edited by Johann Elias Ridinger painter and engraver, director of the Augsburg Academy, too, in the year 1761. Set of 22 sheets. Engraved title with large vignette of a boar-hunt + 21 etchings with engraving (28.4-28.8 x 24.8-25.3 cm) in the mixed technique of etching + engraving typical for Ridinger and his time.
Ruby red morocco
with 4 imitated ribs, 2 dark green back-plates, gilt bipartite title on the front + reduced Ridinger stag from the Evening (Th. 240) of The Stag’s Times of the Day on the back cover, gilt lines on both, and ridinger handlung niemeyer (ridinger gallery niemeyer) on the inner front cover below, all in 23.5 carat,
in homogeneous cassette
with
– traced back here far beyond Thieme-Becker (vol. XXVIII, 1933, p. 308) seamlessly directly to the master’s estate itself and therewith correcting Thienemann (1856) who declared the plates of this set as being deprived – the
original printing-plate to the title
in reverse (28.6 x 25.5 cm) as removable solitaire laid into the front cover under polycarbonate glass. Above the artist’s name and below the hall mark as uniqueness
– Le Grand Exemplaire –
and on the inner front cover ridinger handlung niemeyer, all gilt-tooled as before.
Thienemann + Schwarz 139-160; Weigel, Kunstlager-Cat., XXVIII, 13 A (?, perhaps intermediate state, of A-C); Nagler 16; Coppenrath pt. II, 1464; Schwerdt III (1928), 137 (“An interesting series”). – Illustrations: Schwarz I, plt. VIII; Stubbe, Ridinger, 1966, plts. 14-16; Ridinger Cat. Kielce, 1997, pp. 38-41.
Copy of absolutely uniformly fine printing quality ,
most wide-margined sheet-size of 54.5-56 x 36.5-38 cm ,
coming from an old extensive collection ,
what means,
three sides uncut
with the original laid paper edges (sic!) .
For comparison :
Schwerdt’s copy reached with only 44.5 x 29.8 cm already the top of its boar-spike !
Isolated typographic watermarks. – Outer margins of the title slightly smudgy and right-sided somewhat teared. Three sheets with original small defects in an outermost marginal corner. Slight trace of squeezing in the white outer margin of XI, a smoothed diagonal fold in left and lower margin touching still the outermost white corner of the plate and a further one, confined to the outer white upper margin, in XII. The general squeezing of the paper of VII predominantly confined on the right half and here noticeable somewhat disturbingly only out of the subject. – The title, printed differently on especially buff laid paper, cut also on top and so with only 53 cm a little shorter.
In company with the original plate of the title and the widemarginedness crowned by being uncut on three sides as
a truly
grand et unique exemplaire de luxe
for elitist placing. As a provocatingly exclusive sovereign eye-catcher, enviedly reflecting the noblesse of the house. Adequately presented within the Red Series of lüder h. niemeyer as of highest grade.
On account of its beauty as a Gesamtkunstwerk , a synthesis of the arts
looked at again and again fully imbued with inner touch.
Offer no. 28,822 / price on request
Profit by the 350-Day Jubilee Rolling
7 × à 50 Days Jubilee Discount
to the extensive detail description
