Ridinger, Johann Elias (Ulm 1698 – Augsburg 1767). The Reindeer obtain their Height and Power in their Fifth Year usually have but one calf. A capital stag, harnessed, but broken, in imperial position amidst a winter landscape at northern lights. Sidewards and much smaller a sleigh span. Etching + engraving. (1736.) Inscribed in the plate: Cum Priv. Sac. Caes. Majest. / I. El. Ridinger inv. pinx. sculps. et excud. Aug. Vind., otherwise in German/French/Latin as before. 34.8 x 42.8 cm.

… fleeing all-embracing political correctness …

Thienemann + Schwarz 230. – Sheet 35 of the “View of the Wild Animals along with the Excellent Poetry of the Most Famous Mr. Barthold Heinrich Brockes” as rich subtext in German. – Splendid impression of this wonderful item. – Typographic and large figurative (crown coat-of-arms with tag) watermarks. – The wide margins including the outer textfield isolated quite weakly foxed.
Offer no. 28,095 / EUR  910. / Export price EUR  865. (c. US$ 1263.) + shipping

…  here  even  without  Harness

The Reindeer. In free run to the right before sparse glacier and mountain landscape. Lithograph by Hermann Menzler printed with greenish tone plate by A. Renaud for L. J. Heymann in Berlin. (1863-65.) Inscribed: Gez. v. J. E. Ridinger, lith. v. H. Menzler etc., otherwise in German as above. 27.9 x 29.1 cm.

… as far as the legs carry

(Joh. El. Ridinger’s Hunting Album) I/3. – Comp. above sheet 35 of the “View of the Wild Animals”, Thienemann 230, but without Brockes’ verses. – From the “(Representation of the best known Game of Central Europe together with Scents or Traces)” carried as 1^st part. – The whole rare set almost unknown to literature and practically to be completed just peu à peu comprises 80 sheets plus a recently discovered illustrated title of far larger image size (47.5 x 36 cm), partly compressed to their principal motif or varied in the environment. So here the capital stag only and without the gear from which he had broken away in Ridinger. Here also omitted the small span in the background. In such a way a not least also colour charming first-degree enrichment of the collection. – And beyond this:

“ I find this nice illustration, just as the following one, not quoted, what they really deserve ”

(Thienemann).

In the picture effect corresponding to that of the aquatint technique not used by Ridinger anymore. – On buff wide-margined paper of impeccable freshness. Only in the white lower and left lateral margin quite feeble touch of isolated small fox-spots.
Offer no. 28,430 / EUR  355. / Export price EUR  337. (c. US$ 492.) + shipping

Carries  his  Winter  Queen  …

Winter Fairytale. Queen on a royal reindeer riding through the winter forest. Brush drawing with gold mounting. C. 1920. Inscribed in German as above. 135 x 197 mm (subject 91 x 112 mm).

Cigar-box  illustration design  on light cardboard. – Lower right written reg. no. … 3509a. – At the back traces of mounting.
Offer no. 7,976 / EUR  44. (c. US$ 64.) + shipping

…  and  here  comes  Rudolph !

Atkinson, John Augustus (London 1775 – after 1818/33 or even 1861). Laplanders Hunting. Sitting in a flat-bottomed sledge drawn by two reindeer with already a hare as prey. Aquatint by M. Dubourg (before 1786 – after 1838) in its  original  colouring. London, Edward Orme, 1813. 18.3 x 23.3 cm.

Thieme-Becker II, 212; Nagler I, 179 f. ( “excellent English painter and draughtsman living in Russia for a long time who worked wonderfull pictures” ). – From Foreign Field Sports. – Schwerdt I (1928), 177 ff.: The coloured plates … are fine, both as regards draughtsmanship and colouring … (The book) is sure to increase in value … .
Offer no. 11,767 / EUR  107. (c. US$ 156.) + shipping

Bear Hunting in Lapland. One of the three hunters, additionally with a fox on the back, loads one of the two hunted bears on a  reindeer . In the middle distance a  reindeer  sledge , behind it further hunters. Glazed coloured wood engraving. 1853. 20 x 15.5 cm.
Offer no. 12,213 / EUR  86. (c. US$ 126.) + shipping

“ Thank you Mr. Niemeyer, The prints (you are delivered two weeks ago) are being framed right now. My framer is very particular (works for the National Gallery … ) and I am having a perfect frame made for the large Ridinger (the imperial stag hunt Th. 67). Best regards ”

(Mr. J. R. L., November 19, 2003)