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Thoman(n) von Hagelstein, Tobias Heinrich (1700 Augsburg 1764). Chamois Hunt. Four groups of hunters, two of them with hounds, at different places hunting with pike and rifle. Mezzotint printed in blue. Inscribed: T.H.Thoman inve. et excud. 36.6 x 48.5 cm.
Schwerdt III, 171 d; Blüchel, Die Jagd, I, 149 as color illustration varyingly shortened at the edges (this copy). – Watermark Great Crown with Coat of Arms. – Sheet 3.L. of a set. – Latin distich + German quatrain:
A fast leap though often saves the chamois ,
When they flee easily from one rock onto the other ,
Alone , as here and there the huntsmen endeavor ,
So they are quite easily felled by shot and spear .
Margins on three sides 1.5 cm wide, on the right trimmed to the subject, but added. Throughout smoothed age-creasing, some pin-like tiny holes, small hair crack in the left upper margin of the image and here and there break through of the platemark. Generally thus significantly time-marked, but most largely eliminated by the passepartout. The impression itself fine,
the sheet very rare , the scenery instructive
for a detail of cultural-historical hunting practice :
“ The huntsmen wield long pikes with sickle-shaped blades mounted below of the top to cut through from below the ankle-sinews of the hind legs of the game fleeing into the rock ”
(Blüchel).
And the younger Thomann himself, so Welisch, (Contributions to the History of the Augsburg Painters in the 18th Century), 1901, p. 93 further,
“ highly rated by Ridinger , too ”.
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