Fox’s Goose Poaching near Ludwigsburg – When I Joseph Wagner stalked in the moonlight before dawn near Ludwigsburg at an old water … 33.5 x 25 cm. – Thienemann 344. – Sheet I.
Offer no. 14,464

The Wood Grouse’s Plight near Tübingen – When I Joseph Wagner High Princely Wurttemberg gun cocker followed a shot stag on the blood in the forest near Tübingen in 1738 … 33.7 x 24.8 cm. – Thienemann 345. – Sheet II.
Offer no. 14,485

Eagle Owl, Hare, Hunter – The Poor Hare becomes Part of the Sun-Shy Owl and that of the Hunter’s Barrel … 35.2 x 23.9 cm. – Thienemann 346; Helbing XXXIV, Works by J. E. and M. E. Ridinger, 860: RARE (1900). – The very very fine scenery as sheet III.
Offer no. 14,465

Hare, Eagle, Wild Cat, Hunter – Picture Unit of a Threefold Food Chain – The Poor Hare … 35.3 x 25.8 cm. – Thienemann 348. – Sheet V. – Rounded top.
Offer no. 14,554

– The same, but not provenence Von Behr. – With typographic watermark. – Margins 0.9 (right) to 3.1 cm wide that is quite little age-spotted below. Likewise weak water-streak in the upper white plate and paper-margin. – See the complete description.
Offer no. 14,122 / EUR  706. / Export price EUR  671. (c. US$ 1083.) + shipping

A Rare Scenery – Rarely Occurring, too – Black Clouds darken valley and forest … Couple of stags stricken by lightning. 35.3 x 26.1 cm. – Thienemann 349. – In 1900 missing in Helbing’s 43-sheet stock. – Sheet VI.
Offer no. 14,488

With Pommerania-Stettin as Site of the Crime + Brunswick Perpetrator Profile – These Stags … Have … August William Duke of Brunswick Bevern … + These Roe Bucks … have (the same) … 2 sheets. 35.2-35.3 x 26 cm. – Thienemann 350/51. – Sheets VII + VIII , the latter 1889/90 missing in the 39-sheet Coppenrath stock. – Their being sold in pairs documented here, rarely that fine, by the exactly corresponding two small pinholes in the white upper margin as witnesses of their being bound together. –  One  of  the  thematically  most  beautifully  harmonizing  pendants  of  the  set .
Offer no. 14,477

Hohenlohe on the Spot Good Sport – 24 Septr. in the Year 1763 … the now governing Prince of HOHENLOHE=NEUENSTEIN LOUIS FREDERICK CHARLES have shot this stag of 18 points on the spot. Calling rutting stag with splendid head gear and with fine mane to the right in park-like landscape. Laterally right set back, charmingly instructive,

two  groups  of  trees  with  covered  shooting  stand ,

the first of which occupied by the princely huntsman and supposedly the painter as his hunting companion. After Georg Adam Eger (Murrhardt 1727 – 1808). 35.9 x 25.3 cm. – Thienemann 352. – Sheet IX.
Offer no. 14,479

“Belongs to the best in this collection” – Charles Frederick Prince of Hohenzollern Sigmaringen shoots this stag of odd 18 points 30. 7brs. 1773. so weighing complete 375. (pound) gutted 296 (pound) the (pound) à 40 Loth. Broad to the right with oak leaves in the mouth and showing his marvellous antlers. 35.7 x 26.5 cm. – Thienemann 353. – Sheet X , in 1889/90 missing in the 33-sheet Coppenrath stock.
Offer no. 14,480

Hohenzollern-Sigmaringen – How the Stags are Sneaked up to and Stalked in the Wallow. / The Entrance in the Deer Park. 2x good sport for Charles Frederick Prince of Hohenzollern-Sigmaringen. 2 sheets. 26.5-26.7 x 37.6 cm. – Thienemann 354/55. – Sheets XI (four stags in the fire of two huntsmen) + XII , both missing in 1889/90 in Coppenrath + sheet XII additionally Helbing in 1900.
Offer no. 14,487

Natural Scientific Rarities at Geislingen/Steige etc. This Stag of 14 points … so a 3 Legged, and which one has seen running about in this form for a whole year, has been shot by His High Princely Highness the governing Sir Landgrave of Hesse Darmstadt 1748. d. 12 7brs. By which chance he has lost his foot? assumedly no one will guess right away. has it been by a shot ages ago or has he broken it off on a jump. and how the creature has healed itself so specially and the other body parted from the corpse, which human helps himself that well or cure. / Ditto this fawn with three legs by nature and only the trace of a claw at the thorax had been hunted at  Geißlingen  (between Stuttgart + Ulm) in 1739 by Martin Bückle, forest ranger at Amstetten. Furthermore there is a second calf with lamed forelegs. All in an extensive park in front of a plateau with stoop and large fountain. Etching with engraving. 35.7 x 26.8 cm.

To Thienemann 356. – Sheet XIII (illustration of this in Ridinger Catalogue Darmstadt, 1999, V.21). – Without the Roman number according to the denumeration on occasion of Engelbrecht’s new impressions about 1824, in the current state here with Arab no. 91 as characteristics of its use by substitution in a later new edition of the Wondrous and therefore classic proof for ideal nature of the set of the Incidents as “a kind of sequel (to the set) of the ‘Wondrous Stags’, … (since containing) besides true ‘special incidents’ …

also  representations  of  zoological  peculiarities

similar to the ‘Wondrous Stags’” (Stefan Morét). – Not provenance Von Behr.
Ref. no. 14,984 / in stock – not catalogued / request description & offer

A Wicked Enemy has here frightened the Wild Goose; She was hidden with her breed in secure reed. She believed herself quite free of all surprises; But the  polecat  knows to be after her secretly. 28.3 x 26.4 cm. – Thienemann 357. – Sheet XIV.
Offer no. 14,489

Not only the Falcon’s Prey – Wicked is the He-Cat’s Trick … Here the Heron’s Sweat Puts out the heavily heated glow … In a mountain hollow covered by reed two herons with spread wings + he-cats each. 28.1 x 26.5 cm. – Thienemann 358. – Sheet XV.
Offer no. 14,467

The Hunters’ and the Hounds’ Pleasure – Departure, Refreshment and Rest of Hunters + Pack(s). Four stations with 6 lines subtext each on 2 sheets. 32.1 x 21.5-21.6 cm. – Thienemann 359/360. – Sheets XVI + XVII. – Image 1: “The hunter’s artful cunning here thinks about new nets … Distributes his hounds, fills his pockets full of hail and fire, to fell by this the boar …” – Image 2: “The hunter’s art here knows to reach the hare, The hounds support him with fastness, too …” – Image 3: “A clear spring … often gives … refreshment to the exhausted hunter, too, Who sometimes curses at his luck and hunt; When he has to bear patiently in wood and field and in the hottest days heat, dust, and fear.” – Image 4: “Quite grown hot by hunting and exhausted by running master and hound refresh themselves in stretched out rest …”. –  The  rare  sujets .
Offer no. 14,490

– The same, but provenence Radulf Count Castell-Rüdenhausen. – Warm-toned impressions of the first edition. On heavy laid paper with typographic watermark and sheet sizes of 51 x 33.8 (XVI; at top still the two original little hang-up holes, three most tiny tears in the extremely wide lower margin acid-freely backed) and 43.7 x 31.5 cm (XVII; untrimmed on the left side, weak little water-streak in the left corner of the upper margin) resp., the varyingly wide margins optically well proportioned round about. – See the complete description.
Offer no. 14,956 / EUR  1176. / Export price EUR  1117. (c. US$ 1803.) + shipping

“To some extent the domestic animal of the Indians” – An American Bison as he fights off the attacking bears. 25.4 x 35.5 cm. – Thienemann 361. – Sheet XVIII. – The mighty scenery – God bless America !
Offer no. 14,474

The Ibex is startled by a Lynx’s Cunning … / The Bad Cunning Lynx receives its Deserts … Pendants. 34.3-35.5 x 25.2 cm. – Thienemann 363/64. – Pair XX/XXI. – Each with quatrain in the lower margin. – Marvellous here first of all the thrilling breakneck leap flight of the ibex, instructive then its getting even with the foe: “at a rock (it presses) with its strong horns the lynx’s neck asunder.” – Not provenance Von Behr.
Ref. no. 14,979 / in stock – not catalogued / request description & offer

The one who brings the Goose – What a Wickedness It Is the Fox Commits here! Reineke, a goose at the neck, ascending a manorial outside staircase in a wood lined with rocks. 34 x 24.6 cm. – Thienemann 365; Helbing XXXIV, 880:  Very  rare  (1900). – Sheet XXII. – The sujet that has no equals .
Offer no. 14,468

But – also the Bird’s Rage is revenged on their Enemies … Chamois pushed to death in a crevice by two large and beautifully drawn crying bearded vultures, about to lower themselves to him. 34 x 24.8 cm. – Thienemann 366; Helbing XXXIV, 881:  Very  rare  (1900). – Sheet XXIII.
Offer no. 14,469

Ostrich + Casuar contra Wolf/Fox + Lynx – Each Fighting off Three Wolves (recte more likely jackals as equally positioned in the tales as the foxes of the Bible, Th.; identified as foxes by Weigel, too) + Lynxes resp., one of the latter done. 2 sheets. 30.2 x 25-25.2 cm. – Thienemann 369/70; Helbing XXXIV, 885/86, the latter of which “Very  rare” (1900). – See the pen and ink drawings of 1764 in Weigel’s catalogue of 1869, Ridinger appendix, 396 + 395. – The pair XXVI/XXVII.

A rest of the original tacking thread as mark of their being joint still present on XXVII what is the more fascinating since, as said, assumedly being purchased by the prepossessors directly from the Ridingers.
Offer no. 14,494

– The same, but not provenence Von Behr. – With typographic watermark. – With 1.4/2.3-3.4 cm margins for the sides and 5-6 cm above and below. Here as also in the white textfield a little dusty and a few weak small spots. Sheet 2 with a fold strip on the left side of the back. – See the complete description.
Offer no. 14,123 / EUR  1380. / Export price EUR  1311. (c. US$ 2116.) + shipping

The Asian or Axis Stag – On this Sheet I Have Made a Couple of Illustrations of Asian Stags which are strange to view for their orderly kind of spots … They have, however, many things in common with (fallow-deer) and our wild stags … also used to be kept in pleasure gardens by grandseigneurs … have drawn such from life 1774. Stag + deer, both with collar, that of the latter one with monogram B(D?)TOH ( HOHENLOHE ? ), in park with outside staircase, column of water etc. 33.5 x 25 cm.

Thienemann 372; Helbing XXXIV, 888:  extraordinarily  rare  (1900). –  Missing  1889/90 in Coppenrath and Helbing marked it within his 43 with  50  Goldmark  and  thus  with  a  great  distance  to  the  gross  of the others . – Sheet XXIX.

Rare  depiction . – Martin Elias might have seen the pair all the more in a Hohenlohe park as Georg Adam Eger, already acquainted to him from his days in Darmstadt, seems to have been in employ there in the 70s (see above sheet IX).
Offer no. 14,492

In the Tyrol at the Lake Inn it happened as I was forest keeper there … that I met a so-called white-tailed eagle (Th.: cormorant) with its young ones of which in this moment a large bird of prey (Th.: white-tailed eagle) tried to take a young one … The forest keeper with his dog on the right among trees and shrubs, the attack/defence over the water near the lakeside, at the distant shore a church. 25 x 33.5 cm.

Thienemann 374; Helbing XXXIV, 890:  Very  rare  (1900). –  Missing  1889/90 in Coppenrath and Helbing marked it  with  50  Goldmark  and  thus  with  great  distance  to  the  gross  of  the  other 42. – Thematically  very  beautiful  and  in  regard  of  the  place  very  rare . – Sheet XXXI.
Offer no. 14,461

– The same, but not provenence Von Behr. – Warm-toned impression of the first edition, margins laterally 5.5, otherwise 2.3-3 cm wide. – The slight browning at the back shining through only minimally in the wide margin. – See the complete description.
Offer no. 14,652 / EUR  946. / Export price EUR  899. (c. US$ 1451.) + shipping

In the Lake Ammergau in Bavaria, so a huntsman also told me, that as he aimed at a wild (whooper?) swan unexpectedly … also an especially big (white-tailed) eagle flew so to speak into the shot … The huntsman with two hounds and an already shot smaller bird at the left in a group of three trees, the fight white-tailed eagle/swan over the open water with view on the opposite lakeside. 24.7 x 33.7 cm. – Sheet XXXII.

Thienemann 375; Helbing XXXIV, 891:  Very  rare  (1900). –  Missing  1889/90 in Coppenrath and Helbing marked it in far distance to the other 42  with  80  Goldmark  as  the  second  in  height !
Offer no. 14,460

World World / Oh Oh – The Foxes Fetched a Banquet in the Hen-House, but at once the dogs were hunted on them … + The Night Owls Consumed a Poor Little Hare, so soon cats come along, too, and liked to get them together with the hare … An eagle owl – Thienemann comments – , sitting on a captured hare, is attacked by two cats which want to take the hare from it. Above a second owl tries to fly down and hinder the robbery. Lively wall-mighty sceneries in fine hilly water landscape (under the full moon), located each on the other lakeside of the same water. 33.7-33.8 x 24.7-25.1 cm.

Thienemann 376 + 377 (Helbing XXXIV, 893: RARE ; 1900). – The pair XXXIII/XXXIV. – With subtext, to “World World” i. a.

on which Thienemann remarks laconically “But how maidens and bachelors fit here Ridinger may know”.
Offer no. 14,496

Extremely Rare Representation of Bats – How Wisely God Has Distributed the Skills! The birds in the air, the animals on earth … . Two large-eared bats (Vespertilio auritus. Linn.), really big, on half the sheet size, flying in the air.  One  from  the  front , the  other  from  the  back . The foreground formed, à la Karl Wilhelm de Hamilton, the “animal still-life specialist” and court painter of the Augsburg prince-bishop in whose workshop the young Ridinger possibly has worked, by finely and largely drawn thistles with two  frogs . 38.3 x 28 cm.

Thienemann 378; Helbing XXXIV, 894:  Very  rare  (1900) , marked with  50  Goldmark  and  thus  with  great  distance  to  the  gross  of  the  other 42. – For the bats see the black chalk drawing in Weigel’s catalogue of 1869, Ridinger appendix, 343. – Sheet XXXV.

Thematically  extraordinarily  rare  representation – assumedly single one of Ridinger’s work – of  also  individually  most  beautiful  image  effect  with 12-lined subtext .
Offer no. 14,472

Extremely Rare Representation of Amphibians – That God Is Very Marvellous in All His Works the chameleon teaches … . A lot of amphibians – Thienemann describes – above (about a third of the sheet) two  chameleons  on branches, one catching a dipterous; below fine perennial plants, on these the common green  lizard , an  Argus  butterfly  in the mouth. Entirely à la de Hamilton as before. The scenery mountainous, high above on the right extended palace buildings. 38.5 x 28.3 cm.

Thienemann 379; Helbing XXXIV, 894:  Very  rare  (1900) , marked with  50  Goldmark  and  thus  with  great  distance  to  the  gross  of  the  other 42. – Sheet XXXVI.

Thematically  extraordinarily  rare  representation – assumedly single one of Ridinger’s work – of  also  individually  most  beautiful  image  effect  with 12-lined subtext .
Offer no. 14,493

The Wertheim Wizard – This Portraied Marten is already 7 Years with Count Friederich Ludwig at Löwenstein Wertheim … and in such a Manner Domesticated … 1746. The marten Gertel, whose quite astonishing behavior in the home the subtext lists up, ridding the white bitch Mädel of fleas. 31.6 x 21.8 cm.

Thienemann 388; Schwerdt III, 140, a; Helbing XXXIV, 905. – Sheet XXXXV. – Not provenance von Behr. – The not unsympathetically evenly minimal age tone on the recto perceptibly at the back as quite weak brownness. Both the lower corners with most minimal and small tear off resp.
Offer no. 14,651

FOLLOWS – without Von Behr provenance – with Thienemann 389/90 two sheets “which could be reckoned conveniently to the previous collection … They are mentioned together in the lists and belong together, too”:

Wild Ducks, Stalked by Wild Cats and Foxes. 2 sheets. 36.5 x 26.8 cm. – Thienemann 389/90; Helbing XXXIV, 906 (“Small set of 2 sheets”); Coppenrath, 1889, no. 1547:  Rare  sheets .

Comp. the drawings in reverse from previous possession W. P. Knowles, Rotterdam and Wiesbaden (Lugt 2643), in Augsburg, Ridinger Exhibition Catalogue 1967, nos. 72 f. and Biedermann, Meisterzeichnungen des Deutschen Barock, 1987, nos. 164 f. with full-page illustrations resp. There, too, the two original printing-plates, before in Ridinger Catalogue Niemeyer, 1998, no. 52 with colour illustration. – With 12-line subtext. – See the complete description.
Offer no. 13,006 / EUR  1176. / Export price EUR  1117. (c. US$ 1803.) + shipping

FOLLOWS with Thienemann 242 the Title of the Legendary “Wondrous” as added by way of substitution to the above Von Behr torso, see above, as a “Monument by the sons for the father” :

Exact and right representation of the most wondrous stags as of other special animals which had been hunted, shot, caught alive, or kept by grandseigneurs themselves.

collected and worked by the late Iohan(n) Elias Ridinger painter and engraver also director of the Academy in Augsburg 1768. / Juste et exacte representations des quelques cerfs monstrueux et autres animaux merveilleux chasses, tuès, pris ou gardès en vie par Ordre et pour le plaisir des amis et amateurs des merveilles que la nature nous offre … . Before dense wood scenery target before Diana pedestal garlanded with roses, laurel + oak leaves, in front of it four hounds with shot stag, hare + pheasant and hooded falcon, rifle barrel + splendidly embroidered game bag. The final title sheet to the set. 39.1 x 26.6 cm.

Thienemann + Schwarz (I, plate XII) 242; Ridinger Catalogue Kielce, 1997, 91; Catalogue Darmstadt VI.24 with ills.; Siebert-Weitz p. 19 with full-page ills. 4. – See the preparatory brown ink drawing in Weigel’s catalogue of 1869, Ridinger appendix 522 and the watercolour with target together with game placed in front Schwerdt III, 217, e and L’Art Ancien, (Ridinger) list 14, 35.

on occasion of the 50-sheet new edition of only the stags (s. Thienemann p. 62) 1824/25 by Engelbrecht/Herzberg in Augsburg under omission, too, of the ornamental branch parting the German-French subtext (Schwarz 242a).
Offer no. 14,491

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(Herr D. B., 9. Oktober 2006)