“ In  Animal  Painting  also  distinguished  themselves …”

Thoman(n) von Hagelstein, Tobias Heinrich (1700 Augsburg 1764). Ibex Hunt with Pike and Rifle. In various stages high over the valley. In front left two successful hunters, one of them strapping on the climbing-irons. On a slope behind three huntsmen following a buck while on the opposite height one goes off a ledge. On a plateau in the middle distance a group of hunters occupied with gutting. Mezzotint  printed  in  blue. 36.8 x 48.4 cm.

Blüchel, Die Jagd, I, 149 as color illustration varyingly shortened at the edges (this copy). – Not in Schwerdt. – Watermark Great Crown with Coat-of-arms. – Sheet G.3. of a set. – Only partly legible Latin distich + German quatrain:

Margins on two sides 1-2 cm wide, at the sides trimmed to the edge of the image, but added. Throughout smoothed age-creasing, in the subtext left small tear with trace of scraping, some pin-like holes. Generally thus time-marked, but most largely eliminated by the passepartout. The impression itself fine, the sheet as such as its scenery, too,

rare-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 18^th Century), 1901, p. 93 further,

“ highly  rated  by  Ridinger , too ”.

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