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“ 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:
The ibex , which freshly the ... 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 :
(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 ”. Offer no. 28,143 / EUR 476. / export price EUR 452. (c. US$ 585.) + shipping
(Frau R. R., 20. November 2002)
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