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Dairy Farming – Vache, La. Presentation of the products resulting from keeping cattle as there are milk, butter, cake, horn products as combs + dominos, leather, and others more. Partially coloured lithograph printed with tone plates by Colette and Ed. Renard. C. 1860. 27.5 x 38 cm.

From Delbrück’s “Les récréations …”. – Centre fold torn top and bottom, but backed. –  Instructive  overview.
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The  Animals  Nearest  to  Us

(Samuel Howitt.) Howitt’s miscellaneous Etchings, old & new. New Edition. Etched title and

50  etchings

(c. 9-15 x 15.5-22 cm). (London,) Edw. Orme, 1812. 4to. Old cloth with back-plate and mounted title plate. Uncut.

Thieme-Becker XVII, 588 f. (erroneously with an William H. as etcher). – Compare with Mellon, Prints, 11 + Graesse III, 380 (both the edition of 1803). – Not in Schwerdt. – With the figurative exlibris of Dr. Roederstein. – On strong paper of 1822 watermarked I I S & S, the overlay leaves, irregularly bound with, watermarked 1828. – Binding more timemarked, upper inner book partially broken. Title and a total of 8 plates with weak waterstreak partially reaching into one of the image corners though visible almost only in the mostly wide white (plate) margins. First and last plates with minimal touch of foxing, only title and frontispiece a bit more. Otherwise of fine freshness.

Showing in prevailing landscape, but also domestic or farming scenery besides an ibex family, red deer (6, one of which a rutting fight) , horses (10), dogs + hounds (10), lions (2), fighting buffalos, wild boars

domestic  animals  as  cattle  (9 + 3 together with sheep) ,
sheep (4 + 3 together with cattle) , pigs  and  chicken .

Inscribed throughout: “Howitt”, partly with the additions “in. et f.” and Howitt’s and H. Brookes’ address resp. and dates of 1792 (4), 1797 (2) + 1801 (12). – In the Mellon Collection a comparable compilation of 49 sheets from several suites with dates 1792-1803. The edition of 1812 here obviously reprinted on occasion of Howitt’s death.

Samuel  Howitt  (1765 – London 1822) was “as practicing sportsman … superior in the natural depiction of hunting and sporting scenes … As etcher Howitt has an extraordinary pure and fine needle. He has … publicated numerous works with engravings and etchings after own designs” (Thieme-Becker, their erroneous repetition of Heller-Andresen’s assignment of this publication to a William Howitt – not known to Nagler – who also died in 1822 defeated by inscription + address). – The album here thus exemplary for

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Alp, On the. Shepherd with herd of cattle. Toned wood engraving after Paul Meyerheim (Berlin 1842 – 1915). (1875-77.) 19.7 x 25.1 cm.
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Milker of Buochs. Smoking his pipe at the open window. Wood engraving, supposedly after Charles Hermans (Brussels 1839 – Mentone 1924). 15.5 x 10.8 cm. – Back: Buochs (CH), Charnel-House in. Visitor scenery before the skull shelf. Wood engraving for Adolf Closs (1840 Stuttgart 1894; “at his time one of the best of his profession in Germany”, Thieme-Becker). (1875/77.) 16 x 13.8 cm. – On both sides text complete in itself on folklore, especially on the Alpine tradition of the return of the herds.
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Potter, Paulus (Enkhuizen 1625 – Amsterdam 1654). A Group of Cattle (3 plus a  sheep) with the Pissing Cow / A Group of Horses (4) with the Farmer and his Dog. At the horizon a mill and a steeple resp. on the right. 2 sheets. Etchings with rich aquatint by Johann Heinrich Tischbein II (Haina, Hassia, 1742 – Cassel 1808). (1787.) 19.3-19.7 x 25.4-27.3 cm.

Nagler, Tischbein, 24 and probably 30. – Plates 1 and 2 of the Tischbein album of 1827, Nagler 45, with early impressions throughout, mounted on spots. – Trimmed on platemark or within the white platemargin. – Sheet 1 with ignorable slight water stains in the upper right. – From the collection of the legendary railway king Dr. Strousberg, Berlin.

The  Fine  Pendants  – accounted by Nagler to the most exquisite works of Tischbein – “from the famous painting … in the Electoral Galleries at Cassel … (called) the Pissing Cow”.

Tischbein, court painter of the Landgrave of Hassia, was inspector of the gallery at Cassel, most famous for the splendid collection of Dutch paintings. – See the complete description.
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– – A Cow. Etching with aquatint, partly in brown, by Tischbein as before. 16.5 x 20 cm. – Nagler 56. – Plate 13 of the set. – Small margin around the border line. – Charming sheet. – See the complete description.
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– – Animal Piece. Bull with two cows in differnt positions together with a sleeping sheep on a meager pasture. On the right somewhat in the back village with two other grazing animals. Aquatint with etching by Tischbein as above. Inscribed: P. Potter / JHT (ligated) 1789. 18.3 x 24.6 cm. – Nagler 45. – Plate 4 of the set. – Trimmed on platemark. – See the complete description.
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– – Animal Piece. Three cattle and a sheep below trees. On the right at the horizon a steeple. Aquatint printed in brown by Cornelis Apostool (1762 Amsterdam 1844). 1792. Inscribed and dated in the plate. 21.8 x 30.5 cm.

Rare. – Enclosed text sheet with Potter’s biography and prices realized for his works. – Bernt:

“ (Potter) thanks his fame to the natural presentation of the animals and the Dutch pasture … In the 18^th and 19^th centuries Potter’s basic development of the picture of the animal in the landscape has been continued.”

The two cows standing together on the left in their position almost identical to those of the painting in Cassel, The Pissing Cow. – See the complete description.
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Shepherds with sheep and goats and the herdsdog before a village in hilly landscape. Engraving. C. 1780. 10 x 12.9 cm. – Plate 24 of a larger set. – With watermark. – Somewhat weaker impression. – In the wide white lower margin stained.
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– of a nomadic tribe with their cattle and sheep in front of their tents. Engraving. C. 1780. 10 x 13.9 cm. – From a larger set. – With watermark.
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Wintter, Joseph Georg (1751 Munich 1789). (Animal pieces after several masters … by … Court and Hunt Engraver in Munich 1784.) 7 of 8 sheets of the set of cattle, one of which together with 2 sheep, after Dujardin (5), Berchem, and Both. In differently executed landscape, partly in front of village scenery. 1783 (1) + 1784. Inscribed differently and numbered 2-8. C. 13 x 18 cm.

Nagler 12. – From the comprehensive Augsburg edition Schwerdt III, 190, a ( “Rare” ) of earliest 1821 with only 44 plates anymore (of 137, so the otherwise not proven edition Weigel 21336, “Most … very rare”) on heavy paper. The wonderful quality of the impressions disclosing the small editions and in many cases causing Schwerdt to assume proofs before the letter as he missed the chronological factor. – Without the title plate. – In the outer wide white margins partially slightly foxing. – Single sheets on request. – See the complete description.
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Roos, Johann Heinrich (Otterberg, Palatinate, 1631 – Frankfort on the Maine 1685). The bull with the bell. In company with  goat  and  sheeps  in front of a ruine. Etching by Johann Elias Ridinger (Ulm 1698 – Augsburg 1767). Between 1724 + 1728. Inscribed in the plate: Ioh. Hein. Roos inv. et del. / Elias Ridinger sculpsit Aqua forti. 26.8 x 31.3 cm.

Thienemann + Schwarz 798; erlebnis ridinger 1698-1998 15 with ills.; Ridinger catalogue Darmstadt, 1999, IV.11 with ills. – Compare with the Roos drawing in reverse G,1672 in Augsburg published for the first time in the exhibition catalogue “Master Drawings of German Baroque”, Augsburg 1987, no. 55 with ills. – Leaf 2 of the second of the three Ridinger sets after Roos which is the largest of them and “much better than the first”.

The  marvellous  print  of the  Frisch  collection

obviously in an intermediate state after assumed taking away of address and numbering in the middle. – With typographic watermark and partly slight facet dirt. – Margin slightly foxing, measuring 6.5-7 cm on three sides and 2.4 cm at the top. – On the back Frisch’s collector’s stamp. – See the complete description.
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Beurre, La Batteuse de. Young woman churning while a salesman offers eggs to her. Engraving by Claude Auguste (?) Duflos (1700 Paris 1786) after Benard. C. 1760. 39 x 27.5 cm.

Instructive , rich  sujet  of  large  size  with 8 lines subtext. – Somewhat time-stained.
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In  every  Aspect  a  Trouvaille  by  the  Master

Ridinger, Johann Elias (Ulm 1698 – Augsburg 1767). The Happy Shepherds’ Life. / Vita pastoritia felix. The languishing shepherd-gallant at the feet of his yet very superior shepherdess and pointing at the grapes brought along for her. On the left before a cabin a shephard leaning onto the back of a bull, all around  sheep  and at the feet of his master the hound. Mezzotint (after François Boucher, 1703 Paris 1770). Inscribed: J. E. Ridinger exc. Aug. Vind., otherwise as above. 42.5 x 53.4 cm.

Thienemann-Stillfried / Schwarz 1400 + Helbing 1537 (both variants?); erlebnis ridinger 1698-1998, 18, with ills. – Not in Weigel + Coppenrath. – Bipartite typographic watermark. – With quatrain in German-Latin parallel text. –  Wonderful  large  leaf  known only through the third appendix of 1876 by Stillfried and as all mezzotints by Ridinger very rare. Known here furthermore only the copy of the Ridinger collection of the Counts of Faber-Castell dissolved in 1958 and a further one, if not the same, from the early 60s. While the one here differs from that by several printing deviations.

Of greatest rareness as the precious art of mezzotint only allows editions of about “50 or 60 clean copies, afterwards (the image) grinds itself off very soon” (Sandrart 1675). Accordingly Thienemann noted in 1856:

“ The mezzotints are almost not available on the market anymore. By the way all mezzotints worked by and after Joh. El. Ridinger are that rare that they are to be found almost only in some of the magnificent public print rooms. I met most of the described ones only in the famous Cabinet in Dresden …”

That in the case here as outstanding additional factor of rareness a truly superb broadmarginess of 9.7-10.3 on the sides and 4.5 and 5.6 cm resp. on top and bottom is added, is then just the last non-plus-ultra delighting the pretentious collector. Here thus

The  Rarity  as such  –  The  significantly  deviating  early  Impression  –

wonderful  light  and  contrast  +  enormous  margins .

The lower margin minimally fissured. On the back slightly visible centre fold. – By a “very wide margin” excelled by the way in 1900 the copy of Helbing, valued with 70 gold marks as more than half ( sic! ) of what he rated a very fine copy of the 23-sheet set ( sic! ) of the Fair Game – 130 gold marks. – See the complete description.
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Alp, On the. Shepherdess with goats and a little kid. Lithograph by August Lüttmann (Hamburg c. 1830 – Dusseldorf 1882) after Raphael Ritz (Brig 1829 – Sitten 1894). C. 1850. 19.5 x 15.3 cm. – On mounted china.
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Romeyn, Willem (Haarlem c. 1624 – c. 1694). Animal Piece. Bull, two cows and three sheep resting by a pool in hilly landscape. Etching with aquatint by Johann Heinrich Tischbein II (Haina, Hassia 1742 – Cassel 1808). Inscribed and dated in the plate: WRomeyn pinx: / H. Tischbein fec. 1788. 19.2 x 25.2 cm.

Wurzbach, Romeyn, 8; Nagler, Tischbein, 25. – Plate 7 of the album of 1827 with early impressions throughout mounted on spots. – Trimmed on platemark. – From the collection of the legendary railway king Dr. Strousberg, Berlin.

Fine  Plate  by the pupil of Berchem and Dujardin, but in opposition to these – according to Bernt – “his ponderous gregarious animals are drawn more carelessly”. This ponderousness not to be stated here, but otherwise the quite fine look of the animals. Furthermore “A standing cow (here bull) is typical … In the Albertina (Vienna) … well represented by 13 fine plates”.
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A Cow going to the left. After Johann Heinrich Roos (Otterberg 1631 – Frankfort on the Main 1685). 15.1 x 20.9 cm. – Sheet 12 of the set. – Trimmed within the white platemark. – See the complete description.
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– sidewards to the right, seen from the back. Printed in brown. 12.3 x 8.7 cm. – Sheet 10. – Partly trimmed on the platemark. – Fine plate.
Offer no. 14,902 / EUR  76. (c. US$ 123.) + shipping

Resting Ox. After Roos as above. 12.5 x 20 cm. – Sheet 15. – Trimmed within the white platemark. – See the complete description.
Offer no. 14,906 / EUR  74. (c. US$ 119.) + shipping

A Sheep. Resting, to the left. Etching. 5.4 x 12 cm. – Plate 23. – Trimmed within the white plate margin, at the top near to the picture.
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A Bull to the right. After Friedrich Wilhelm Hirt (1721 Frankfort on the Main 1772). 8.5 x 12 cm. – Sheet 11. – “(Hirt) is much praised as animal painter …” (Th.-B.).
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A Goat. To the left, standing with the front legs on a rock. After Roos as above. Inscribed: JHRoos / JHT 1789. 16.2 x 14 cm. – Sheet 26. – With narrow margin around the border line.
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A Billy-Goat. Vigilant, the raised head to the right. 12.3 x 12.2 cm. – Sheet 27. – Trimmed within the white plate margin, on top near to the left horn.
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– Resting, to the left. Aquatint. 11.1 x 17.1 cm. – Sheet 25. – Trimmed to the platemark. – Fine plate.
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Another  Trouvaille  by  the  Master  after  Boucher

Johann Elias Ridinger. The Foolish Jealousy. / Zelotypia stolida. Posing as shepherd the young gallant confesses his love to his shepherdess, overheard by a young shepherd. On both sides  sheep  +  lambs. Mezzotint (after Boucher as above). Inscribed: Joh. El. Ridinger exc. Aug. Vind., otherwise as before. 42.3 x 54.3 cm.

Schwarz 1461 with plate vol. 2, XX (variant); erlebnis ridinger 1698-1998, 19. – Not in Helbing, Weigel + Coppenrath. – Typographic watermark. – With quatrain in German-Latin parallel text.

Not known to Thienemann and Stillfried. – Wonderful  large  leaf, besides the one of von Gutmann here only provable with the copy of the collection of the Counts of Faber-Castell dissolved in 1958 (creased and trimmed to the image) for which for lack of an illustration marks of state cannot be compared. Here now with extremely wide margins and only a centre fold invisible from the front. The wide white lower margin fissured and backed acid-freely. Independent of this contrary to Gutmann’s copy in a

deviating  earlier  state.

On the already technically conditioned scarceness see above, too. And also here again

The  Rarity  as such  –  The  significantly  deviating  early  Impression  –

wonderful  light  and  contrast  +  enormous  margins .

And as already in Shepherds’ Life and Captivity (see below) engraved in opposite direction after Boucher’s ( “Main master of the rococo”, Jahn ) ‘Les amours pastorales’ in the print by Gaillard. – See the complete description.
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Pyne, William Henry (1769 London 1843). Highland Shepherd. The Scotch shepherd with his dog sitting at a stony slope. Coloured aquatint for William Miller in London. 1805. 34.5 x 25.5 cm.

From Lipperheide Gca 18 (ed. of 1808). – With text leaf. – Side margins trimmed on platemark, but unimportant for the wide white plate margin. – On strong Whatman paper.
Offer no. 4,967 / EUR  94. (c. US$ 152.) + shipping

Berchem, Nicolaes (Haarlem 1620 – Amsterdam 1683). Laban and his People. Surrounded by a herd of different livestock. Steel engraving by William French (ca 1815 – East Grinstead 1898). 3^rd quarter of the 19^th century. 14 x 16.3 cm.
Offer no. 4,962 / EUR  43. (c. US$ 69.) + shipping

– – A Landscape. Shepherds and manifold livestock and travellers at Italian waters. Steel engraving as before.
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– – A Landscape. Italian peasants with different livestock, partly standing in the shallow river. On the left steep mountain wall with castle. Steel engraving as before. 18.9 x 13.4 cm.
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– – A Landscape. Italian peasants with several livestock in shallow water amongst fine mountains. Steel engraving as before, but by Albert Henry Payne (London 1812 – Leipsic 1902). 15.4 x 16.9 cm.
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– – Cattle drinking. Shepherds and laundrywomen with cattle and goats at a water feed by two waterfalls. Steel engraving by William French as before. 12.3 x 15.4 cm.
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And  once  again  of  equal  Size  the  Master  after  Boucher

Johann Elias Ridinger. The Sweet Captivity. / Jucunda captivitas. A shepherd blowing the bagpipe for his shepherdess sitting below a birdcage. Another young woman sitting between them with her left resting on the young man’s knee. Furthermore  sheep  and the hound of the lover. Mezzotint (after Boucher as above). Inscribed: Joh. El. Ridinger excud. Aug. Vind., otherwise as before. 42 x 54 cm.

Schwarz 1463 with plate vol. 2, XXII (variant); Helbing 1539 (variant? The Schwarz copy?); erlebnis ridinger 1698-1998, 20, with ills. – Not in Weigel + Coppenrath. – Bipartite WANGEN watermark. – With quatrain in German-Latin parallel text.

Again not known to Thienemann and Stillfried. – Wonderful  large  leaf  valued by Helbing ( “Very rare mezzotint” ) in 1900 with 75 gold mark even nearer to his very fine copy of the 23-sheet ( sic! ) set The Fair Game (130 gold mark) than the “The Happy Shepherds’ Life” (70 gold mark, see above). Just as the one here was rated and payed for significantly more in the sale of the Count Faber-Castell collection (1958) than the latter one. Present moreover in the best preseved copy of of the four copies known here.

Centre fold barely recognizable from the front, a pin head sized scrape and an equal hole in the free outmost plate field of the text margin. The wide white upper margin fissured and backed acid-freely. Independently of this contrary to – at least –Gutmann’s copy (the other two not illustrated here) in

visibly  deviating  earlier  state .

With 9.3-10 for the sides and 4.8 and 5.5 cm at top and bottom resp. again of superb wide margins. And thus, once again,

The  Rarity  as such  –  The  significantly  deviating  early  Impression  –

wonderful  light  and  contrast  +  enormous  margins .

Finally in the person of the shepherdess this station is a very charming development from “Happy Shepherds’ Life”, see above, as also noted by Schwarz. While there not just her face is vainglorious in accordence with the text, but the belle in general quite a reserved lady, we see her really relaxed here. Her face complete bestowal, leg shown, bosom anyway, the skirt folded back invitingly. But everything light and charming and of equal grace the shepherd. – See the complete description.
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Now  Milk  and  Live  Stock  in  the  Fable

Ridinger, Johann Elias (Ulm 1698 – Augsburg 1767). The mindless age becomes contemptuous by childish expression. Elected for his large beard by the animals as their representative the  billy-goat  behaves himself so foppish over this that he “provokes partly guffaw, partly annoyance. This the artist shows excellently. The badger is rolling with laughter, the stag, the horse, the fox laugh scornful, the tiger, the striated hyena, and the lynx only now become aware of the foolishness of their choice and revoke it. The monkey though points at him” (Thienemann). Etching and engraving. (1744.) Inscribed: J. El. Ridinger inv. et fec. et exc., title in German-Latin-French as above. 33.3 x 24.7 cm.

Thienemann + Schwarz 773; Cat. Darmstadt IV.8 with ills. – Sheet 9 of the fables. – Without the number upper right which is almost unknown but appears later on. – Fleur-de-lis watermark. – In the 2^nd half of the 19^th century mounted on blue-grey laid paper of the early 18^th century with watermark SICKTE together with Jumping Horse Heawood 2790 (Germany 18^th Cent. Esp. in Doppelmayr, Sonnen-Uhren, Nuremberg 1719) on which it is laid on loosely now. – Trimmed on three sides on the edge of the wide white plate margin. – Wonderful early impression. – See the complete description.
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– – – Splendour and grandeur makes no one brighter. A monkey poses as the throneworthy and stag, horse,  billy-goat, bear, wolf, hare, Ridinger-hound, and other honest mammals are content with it. But the cunning fox lets the tom-cat become the seducer and the monkey “quite rediculous to all”. – As before. – Thienemann + Schwarz 777. – Sheet 13 of the fables. – Traces of the stitching of binding in the a bit torn left paper margin. A tear touching the title repaired acid-freely. – “A very well done plate” (Th.). – See the complete description.
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– – – Foolish Conceit about foreign Beauties deserves reasonable People’s Contempt. Zebra, monkey, and parrot travel in a country of which they suppose that foreign things were highly estimated there. Accordingly they boast themselves in view of horse,  cow  and  sheep. And see themselves confronted with reasonable opinions. As before, but etched by the eldest son Martin Elias Ridinger (1730 Augsburg 1780). After 1767. Inscribed: J. E. Ridinger inv. et del. / M. El. Ridinger sc. et exc: A. V., other as above.

Thienemann + Schwarz 783. – Plate 19 of the set. – Extremely rare 3^rd sheet of the add on (of four: “they make themselves very scarce”, Thienemann 1856). – With fine white plate and paper margin. In the latter’s on the left old traces of stitching. – See the complete description.
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Mountains, Thunderstorm in the. Frightened cattle, goats and asses with a lightning in the back at their footbridge swept away by the torrent. Toned wood engraving by Franz Häussler (Altdorf, Wurttemberg, 1845 – Munich 1920) after an own sketch. (1875-77.) 20.8 x 26 cm.

Though Thieme-Becker and Boetticher mention him as painter only here his inscription in the stock shows a “sc(ulpsit)”.
Offer no. 9,658 / EUR  50. (c. US$ 81.) + shipping

Zügel, Heinrich von (Murrhardt 1850 – Munich 1941). Goatherd killed in an accident (at the steep slope). Nearby the anxious herd, above a vulture. Toned wood engraving by Carl Staud (1847 Stuttgart after 1894) for Adolf Closs, Stuttgart. (1875-77.) 27.5 x 18.8 cm. – “Zügel had indeed enormous capabilities, and his paintings are done wonderfully …” (Heinrich Kutzer).
Offer no. 9,736 / EUR  66. (c. US$ 107.) + shipping

Schick, Rudolf (1840 Berlin 1887). Shepherd in the Campagna. In the poorly overgrown rocky landscape amongst his goat herd playing the pan-pipes. In the background an estate. Toned wood engraving for Adolf Closs, Stuttgart. (1875-77.) 17.4 x 24.7 cm. – After the painting of 1873. – See the complete description.
Offer no. 10,282 / EUR  50. (c. US$ 81.) + shipping

And  now  the  Lamb  as  Bait  for  Wolves

– – – The Wolf to catch in the Pit with the  Sheep. Against the scenery of a mountainous landscape with stock of trees the wolf trap. Erected in its midth a pole with a wheel on top on which a  lamb lies whose bleating baited four wolves, the first one already falling into the pit. Pen and brown ink with grey wash. Ca. 1729. Inscribed in graphite on the verso: Der Wolf in der Grube zu fangen mit dem Schafe. 292-295 x 422-423 mm.

Early  chief  work  from  Weigel’s  important  Ridinger  collection

and drawn also in the same direction as preparatory for the print in The Princely Hunting Pleasure, the earliest set engraved by Ridinger himself, published from 1729 onward. See Thienemann, p. 15, no. 41. – On light hand-made paper with margins up to 17 mm. With a hole no larger than a pinhead. Took out made fold athwart and along resp. of the minimal mould stains on the backonly one visible on the recto. By and large somewhat time-marked, but practically not impairing the fine general impression. – See the complete description.
Offer no. 14,976  /  price on request

Loups au Carnage, Les. Wolves attacking a herd of sheep and goats in hilly landscape. Toned wood engraving by Jules Huyot (Toulouse 1841 – Paris after 1882) after Jules Gélibert (Bagnères-de-Bigorre/Hautes-Pyrénées 1834 – Capbreton/Landes 1916). C. 1870. 22 x 32 cm.

Thieme-Becker XIII, 365; AKL LI, 198 f.: “(Gélibert produces) almost exclusively realistic animal and hunting depictions which concentrate on the chief subject”. – See the complete description.
Offer no. 6,149 / EUR  118. (c. US$ 190.) + shipping

– – The same in an impression of 1873 without tone plate on lighter paper paginated “37”, though without text on the back, too. 22.5 x 31.8 cm.
Offer no. 11,222 / EUR  91. (c. US$ 147.) + shipping

“ Thanks for shipping the print. It has arrived here in excellent shape. Happy holidays ”

(Mr. H. A. P., December 12, 2001)