Captain’s Commission by Frederick August of Saxony
for Günther Karl Albrecht August Freiherr von Werthern

Autographs & Manuscripts

• Customs procedure & span of six carriage horses :
  Franz Egon Graf von Fürstenberg, Letter with autograph signature to the Elector of Treves
• The Differing Original – The 100 £ – The Supress – The Piano Wrestling :
  Biographische Notitzen (on Ludwig van Beethoven) by Ignaz Ritter von Seyfried
  The second earliest biography on Beethoven – The report of a close companion
• 673,120 mark – but only with marital permission :
  Certificate of heirship for Louise Friederike Therese Schubert, b. Häussler
• Promotion in stormy Napoleonic age :
  Captain’s Commission by Frederick August of Saxony
  for Günther Karl Albrecht August Freiherr von Werthern
• About theatre, culture & art :
  Oscar Linke (writer & editor), Autograph Documents from Berlin & Weimar

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Johann Elias Ridinger + George William
Margrave at Brandenburg,, The Hunting
Ground surrounded by Flaring Cords

Bibliophily

• “The golden age of porcelain” in the édition de luxe :
  Nicola Moufang, Old Berlin in Porcelain from the age of Ridinger
• The prince’s copy of the Edwin Beinecke Library :
  Antonio Pigafetta, Magellan’s Voyage
  With 23 colored full-page sketch-maps + innumerable colored initials
• Comprehendible only today :
  Adalbert Stifter, Witiko (Insel edition)
• On Vellum (!) – Bibliophily in the New World :
  John Keats, Unpublished Poem To His Sister Fanny, April 1818
• The Toils of 1717 – The Toils Plate of 1729
  Unprecedentedly Unique the Unison of Time + Sujet
  Johann Elias Ridinger + George William Margrave at Brandenburg,
  The Hunting Ground surrounded by Flaring Cords

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Siegwald Johannes Dahl
Roebuck in the Winter Forest

Old Master Paintings

• “… they even surpass those in color charm” 
  Siegwald Johannes Dahl, Roebuck in the Winter Forest

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Thomas Baston, Shipwreck

Drawings

• Extraordinary also the material :
  Le Brun – A Lion Hunt in pen and brown ink on vellum
• Your’s to discover :
  Jean-Baptiste Oudry (period), Bear-Baiting
• Intimate Cabinet Drawing of the Jolle Collection :
  Johann Elias Ridinger, An Old Horse’s Upper Jaw-Bone as seen from Below
• A ‘Sketch’ as ‘Finished’ Artwork
  and precious rarity to the 1895 oil burnt in 1942
  Carl Strathmann, Cranes of Ibycus
• Rare pioneer of English marine painting –
  here a vellum drawing along with the respective print :
  Thomas Baston, Shipwreck

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Thomas Landseer, The Brawl about the Fox

Prints

• Joseph Georg Wintter, Three Dogs disputing over Bones
• Johann Heinrich Roos, Italian Landscape with Farmhouse
• Hans Holbein II, Self-portrait and that of his Wife
• Fine proof :
  Thomas Landseer, The Brawl about the Fox
• Paul Bril, Rocky Coastal Landscape

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Giuseppe Santomaso, Memento Mori

XX^th Century

• Franz Marc – inspired by Ridinger
• Friedrich Heubner, The Swell
• Lebadang, Barques in the Jungle
• Giuseppe Santomaso, Memento Mori
• Anonymous. No Title (Crossroads with Houses)

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Captain Thomas Coram

William Hogarth

• Frontispiece to Kerby
• Masquerades and Operas, Burlington-gate
• So strange :
  Shrimps!
  The crab-girl
• Captain Thomas Coram
• The Battle of the Pictures

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Georg Philipp Rugendas I
Horsemen, Cavalry Battles, and Camp Sceneries from 1693–1705 in clair obscur

Rugendas Artist Dynasty

• The Anderhub copy :
  Georg Philipp Rugendas I, Diversi Pensieri. Countryfolk mounted/with horse(s). Set of 8 sheets
• Graphic unique determined by the softness of its brush technique :
  Georg Philipp Rugendas II, Young Hunter with his Hounds propped over the Killed Game
• After decades in the generous ambience of a connoisseur :
  Georg Philipp Rugendas I, With iron bite one may not try at once …
• Always the admirers harass :
  Johann Moritz Rugendas, Autograph letter in German with signature
  to the Ulm music director Wilhelm Speidel
• “These sets … document the paintings” :
  Georg Philipp Rugendas I, Horsemen, Cavalry Battles, and Camp Sceneries from 1693–1705 in clair obscur

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Joseph Georg Wintter
The Chief Boar in the Winter Forest
The Hunter smoking a Pipe at the Shot Chief Boar

Joseph Georg Wintter

• Joseph Georg Wintter, Three Dogs disputing over Bones
• Suite of 12 chalk lithographs not known to literature
  and supposedly provable completely here for the first time :
  Raphael Wintter, Animal Drawings for Landscape Furnishing
• First drawn, then cut up, and finally saved :
  Joseph Georg Wintter, The Biting Horses that meanwhile had to serve the Stags
• Joseph Georg Wintter, The Chief Boar in the Winter Forest
  The Hunter smoking a Pipe at the Shot Chief Boar
• Joseph Georg Wintter, The Silhouette of the later Munich Gallery Director Georg von Dillis

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Josef Anton Pfeiffer
Female Hound with 6 Puppies

Animals , Hunting , Environment

• Johann Christian Reinhart, The Landscape with the Hunter and the Two Hounds
• The French Hunt in the century after Ridinger :
  Antoine Charles Horace Vernet, La chasse au cerf in 24 engravings
• In the original coloring from Foreign Field Sports :
  Samuel Howitt, Hindoo Elephant Trap (Chasse de l’Éléphant)
• “… and their skins have to protect us against sharp coldness”
  Johann Elias Ridinger, There are Two Kinds of Lynxes: Stone and Calf Lynx
• Co-Founder of the Dynasty of Karlsbad Glass Cutters
  Josef Anton Pfeiffer, Female Hound with 6 Puppies

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Carel Lodewijk Dake
Fishermen on the Shore

Fishing & Angling

• Pu-Quà, A Fishmonger
• Abraham Bosse, The Oyster Vendor
• Angling is the family’s pleasure
  for it keeps the paterfamilias’ good spirits
  Franz Edmund Weirotter, At the Lake near Bolzano (Lake Bolsena)
• Carel Lodewijk Dake, Fishermen on the Shore
• The Fishing Experience in Canada :
  W. Ross King, The Sportsman and Naturalist in Canada

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Baron von Eisenberg, Le Dificile

Horses & Riding

• Jacob A. Duck or Jan le Ducq, The Rider at the Pillar
• Johann Elias Ridinger, Adolf Frederick of Holstein-Gottorp,
  Hereditary Prince of Norway, Crown Prince of Sweden
• Siegwald Johannes Dahl, Can no more lie down
• Jan van Huchtenburgh
  A Cavalry Attack / The Fight of the Two Horsemen
• Baron von Eisenberg, Le Dificile

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Italy – Central + Northern Italy
L’Italie divisée en se différens Etats

Cartography

• With large inset of Brazil + local index :
  Portugalliae et Algabriae Regna cum Mappa Braziliae Regnum
• Belgium – Hannonia Namvricvm Comitatus
  (Hainaut – Namur)
• With separate local index :
  Daniae Regnum cum Ducatu Holsatiae et Slesvici
• Tibet – Carte de la Tartarie Independante
• Italy – Central + Northern Italy
  L’Italie divisée en se différens Etats

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Seven Mountains – Johann Adolf Lasinsky
Nonnenwerth, Rolandseck, and Drachenfels

Views & Local History

• Berlin – Insulaner – Günter Neumann – “The Islander doesn’t lose the patience”
• Atmospheric sujet matching Rembrandt’s chiaroscuro effect :
  Venice – W. Wolfgang Breuer, Gondolas before patrician house in Venice
• Ehrenberg/Lech – Jean François Albanis de Beaumont, The Barriere at the Castle of Ehremberg (Ehrenberg Castle)
• Schwarzburg (Thuringia)
• Seven Mountains – Johann Adolf Lasinsky, Nonnenwerth, Rolandseck, and Drachenfels

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Circular Decree by the (royal Danish)
Supreme Court of Schleswig at Gottorf,
in regard of the clearance of the crafts
loading and unloading in the Flensburg
Fiord (Aug. 29, 1826)

Law / Proclamations

• All about water :
  Ahasver Fritsch, Jus Fluviaticum, Romano-Germanicum Tripartium
• Circular, Regarding the extrapolation of the value of goods, especially in view of pawnee’s rights (1788)
• Seizures + Legal Procedures
• Customs procedure for the Elector in Cologne :
  Franz Egon Count of Fürstenberg, Letter with autograph signature to the Elector of Treves (1673)
• Circular Decree by the (royal Danish) Supreme Court of Schleswig at Gottorf
  in regard of the clearance of the crafts loading and unloading in the Flensburg Fiord (Aug. 29, 1826)

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Miscellania

Books  –  Prints

Philosophical Explication
The Colors to Histories and Heraldics

Books

• Mann – Die Neue Rundschau
• Philosophical Explication, The Colors to Histories and Heraldics
• Forbidden in Prussia – one edition followed the other :
  August Hermann Niemeyer, Textbook for the upper religion classes at scholar schools
• Heinrich Mann, Empfang bei der Welt
• Deutsche Rundschau

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Birch-Pfeiffer – Romeo and Julia.
Charlotte Birch-Pfeiffer as the nurse of Julia

Prints

• Wine Inspection
• Moulinet – Elegances of Quadrille Dancing
• Annibale Carracci, Vna Spia Famosa (A Well-Known Informer)
• Jules Laurens, Pies sous bois
• Birch-Pfeiffer – Romeo and Julia.
  Charlotte Birch-Pfeiffer as the nurse of Julia

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„ Best her Niemeyer, De prenten zijn vanmiddag in goede staat gearriveerd. Alleen al het uitpakken is een genot! Ze zien er prachtig uit (vooral The Idel ’prentice is een juweel) … Wat dat betreft, zijn eigenlijk alle prenten die u mij hebt toegezonde, van uitstekende kwaliteit … “

(de heer P. E., 1. Februar 2008)