50 Years
Fine Arts & Rare Books
50 Years
The Fine & Rare
Autographs & Manuscripts · Bibliophily
Drawings · Prints · XXth Century
William Hogarth · Joseph Georg Wintter · Rugendas Artist Dynasty
Animals , Hunting , Environment · Fishing & Angling · Horses & Riding
Cartography · Views & Local History · Law / Proclamations · Miscellania
Johann Moriz Rugendas
Autograph letter to the Ulm music director Wilhelm Speidel
Autographs & Manuscripts
- 673,120 mark – but only with marital permission :
Certificate of heirship for Louise Friederike Therese Schubert, b. Häussler - Customs procedure & span of six carriage horses :
Franz Egon Graf von Fürstenberg, Letter with autograph signature to the Elector of Treves - The prince’s copy of the Edwin Beinecke Library :
Antonio Pigafetta, Magellan’s Voyage
With 23 coloured full-page sketch-maps & innumerable coloured initials - It has never been else – always the admirers harass :
Johann Moriz Rugendas, Autograph letter to the Ulm music director Wilhelm Speidel - “The Koch Collection is a European matter”
Georg Kinsky, Manuscripts – Letters – Documents from Scarlatti to Stravinsky.
Catalogue of the Musical Autograph Collection Louis Koch
Nicola Moufang
Old Berlin in Porcelain from the age of Ridinger
Bibliophily
- On Vellum (!) – Bibliophily in the New World :
John Keats, Unpublished Poem To His Sister Fanny, April 1818 - In the bibliophile private binding of E. J. Barron :
William Somervile, The Chase with 14 large vignettes by the Bewick Brothers - 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 - “The golden age of porcelain” in the édition de luxe :
Nicola Moufang, Old Berlin in Porcelain from the age of Ridinger - In red morocco designed by E. R. Weiß :
Wilhelm Weigand (ed.), The Court of Louis XIV from the Memoirs of the Duke of Saint-Simon
Drawings
- A ‘Sketch’ as ‘Finished’ Artwork
and precious rarity to the 1895 oil burnt in 1942
Carl Strathmann, Cranes of Ibycus - Large-sized drawing of the Italianate Hendrik Verschuring
with both the stamps of the collection Friedrich Quiring, Eberswalde :
Hendrik Verschuring, Resting Hunters & Falconers - “… a now living young brilliant artist”
Carl Krüger, Winter Landscape - When India stopped the West :
Alexander the Great on the Hyphasis autumn 326 B.C. of 1723
The perhaps most spectacular drawing of the 18th century - Master of the South German landscape :
Gustav Kampmann, Greifenberg
François Boucher, Gaigne petit
Prints
- Inspired by Watteau :
Johann Elias Ridinger, The Hippocrene or The Donation of Water - Johann Heinrich Roos, Italian Landscape with Farmhouse
- Jean Baptiste Le Prince, Le Remouleur (The Knife-Grinder)
- François Boucher, Gaigne petit
- “MONUMENTS OF THE HISTORY OF PRINT”
+
“One can hardly imagine more beautiful engravings”
Charles Le Brun, The Triumphs of Alexander the Great
W. Wolfgang Breuer
Gondolas before patrician house in Venice
XXth Century
- “Excellent portraitist of the horse in motion”
Arthur Grunenberg, Horse Tamer - Carl Joseph Bauer, Night. Resting and Standing Female Nude
- Giuseppe Santomaso, Memento Mori
- Expressively Shining South :
Franz Heckendorf, Mediterranean Landscape with Minaret - Atmospheric sujet matching Rembrandt’s chiaroscuro effect :
W. Wolfgang Breuer, Gondolas before patrician house in Venice
William Hogarth
- Rakewell surrounded by Artists and Professors
The Rake’s Progress II - Unmercifully Swung Satiric Scourge
Hogarth’s Trial Gallop to Butler’s English Don Quixote
Frontispiece and its Explanation
Hudibras I - A little goose for the loving cousins :
Ensnared by a Procuress
A Harlot’s Progress I - The spoiled adventure :
“What was once white is now the opposite” - “… painted with the greatest pleasure”
Captain Thomas Coram
Georg Philipp Rugendas I
Here the young horse learns galloping in due style …
Rugendas Artist Dynasty
- After decades in the generous ambience of a connoisseur :
Georg Philipp Rugendas I, So the long rope teaches the young horse trotting … - Here with the title text not known to literature :
Johann Moritz Rugendas, Horses from the Royal Bavarian Stables - Always the admirers harass :
Johann Moritz Rugendas, Autograph letter in German with signature
to the Ulm music director Wilhelm Speidel - Georg Philipp Rugendas I, Before the Battle
- After decades in the generous ambience of a connoisseur :
Georg Philipp Rugendas I, Here the young horse learns galloping in due style …
Joseph Georg Wintter
Coarse Boar before Hissing Snake
Joseph Georg Wintter
- Joseph Georg Wintter, The Lion teaching the Three Dogs
- Joseph Georg Wintter, The Stag of Odd 20 Ends attacked by Wolves
- Joseph Georg Wintter, The Hunter lying in wait for the Stag of 10 Ends
The Stag of 10 Ends barked dead - Joseph Georg Wintter, Coarse Boar before Hissing Snake
- Joseph Georg Wintter, Crying Stag of Odd 8 Ends in Rutting Season
Johann Christian Reinhart
The Landscape with Saint Hubert
Animals , Hunting , Environment
- “ … as one doesn’t find them soon fuller of character ”
August Schleich, Troop of Boars - “for the particular pleasure they are also hunted with hounds”
Johann Elias Ridinger, How the Roes are hunted with Hounds - Johannes Stradanus (= Jan van der Straet),
The Variety of hunting the Badger - In the original coloring from Foreign Field Sports :
Samuel Howitt, A Trap to Shoot the Bear - Franconian Saint Hubert in Rome :
Johann Christian Reinhart, The Landscape with Saint Hubert
Hermanus van Brussel
The Landscape with the Two Anglers at the Water
Fishing & Angling
- Only light penalties for fish thieves in 1797 :
Publicandum (by the Royal Electorate Marchian War and Domain Chamber)
On behalf of punishing the fish and especially carp thefts from the carp ponds - Ludwig Dill, Coral Fishers
- Wrasses – Labrus
- Red Sea – Eight Species of Fish in Natural Size
- State-in-progress unknown to literature
before completion of the second state
Hermanus van Brussel, The Landscape with the Two Anglers at the Water
Antoine Charles Horace Vernet
La chasse au cerf in 24 engravings
Horses & Riding
- From the Famous Picture in Cassel called
“The Pissing Cow”
Paulus Potter, A Group of Horses - Vivacious :
Joseph Georg Wintter
Biting Horses, driven apart by the groom - “These sets … document the paintings” :
Georg Philipp Rugendas I
Horsemen, Cavalry Battles, and Camp Scenes from 1693-1705
in clair obscur by Johann Christian Rugendas - The plenty of horses amidst the par force hunt :
Antoine Charles Horace Vernet, La chasse au cerf in 24 engravings - Belonging to the
“drawings of partly extraordinary delicacy”
Siegwald Johannes Dahl, Accompanies the Mother at Work
Tartaria sive Magnichami Imperiorum
Cartography
- Les Isles Britanniques, Comprenant les Royaumes d’Angleterre,
d’Ecosse et d’Irlande divisée en grandes Provinces - Les Indes Orientales et leur Archipel
- Netherlands – Partie Septentrionale des Pays-Bas
- Bacon’s Map of London and Stranger’s Guide (1868)
- Tartaria sive Magnichami Imperiorum
Johann Adolf Lasinsky
Ruin Sooneck (Niederheimbach)
Views & Local History
- Bernhard Mannfeld, Loreley
- Bernese Defile – Lake Garda – Etsch – Jean François Albanis de Beaumont, The pass of Chiusa and distant Mountains near Belluno and Ossenigo
- Louis François Cassas, Aspect d’une Partie du Village de Cana en Galilée
- Johann Adolf Lasinsky, Ruin Sooneck (Niederheimbach)
- “The richly decorated Renaissance chimney”
Chimney-Piece in the Town Hall Antwerp
Law / Proclamations
- 100 years game law in five succeeding generations :
Hunting Edicts by the Dukes of Brunswick-Luneburg 1705-1805 - 250 Years «Pour encourager les autres»
The political judicial murder of Admiral John Byng sent shock waves throughout Europe :
Reliable Biography of the British Admiral of the White Flag, John Byng,
executed March 14, 1757
in virtually unique contemporary anonymous German publication - Since the success not corresponded to the result hoped for :
Edict (by Frederick William of Prussia) Regarding the Becoming Rabid of Dogs (1797) - The string-version to hang out :
Directions regarding the Restriction of Keeping Dogs and the Prevention of the Danger to be afraid of rabid Dogs (1797) - 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)
Miscellania
Books – Prints
Berlin – Günter Neumann
– “(The Islander
doesn’t lose the patience)”
Books
- Kyaw – The World-Famous Königstein Fountain’s Address out of its Depth
- Mann – Die Neue Rundschau
- Mann – Neue Schweizer Rundschau
- Mann – Georg Lukacs, Thomas Mann
- When Berlin still stood to America :
Berlin – Günter Neumann – “(The Islander doesn’t lose the patience)”
Golf – Caddie: “Ave yer
finished wi’ the links for to-day,
Sir?”
Prints
- Richard Knötel, Knowledge of Uniforms / Low Countries
- Hasty Barber. / Dusseldorf Monthlies IV, 6
- Theodor l’Arronge as Frieder Kranich
in Charlotte Birch-Pfeiffer’s play “The Hurdy-Gurdy Man and his Child” - Charles B. Lawrence, Mother & Child
- Golf – Caddie: “Ave yer finished wi’ the links for to-day, Sir?”
“ Thank you for a most interesting Website … I am very interested especially in William Hogarth as I have recently discovered … Thank you once again for a most fascinating display on your Website ”
(Mrs. H. J. G., October 19, 2008)
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