Ridinger, Johann Elias (Ulm 1698 – Augsburg 1767). The Pleasure of Hunting. Planning, departure, refreshment, and rest of huntsmen + pack(s). Fours stations with 6 lines subtext each on 2 sheets. Etching + engraving by Martin Elias Ridinger (1730 Augsburg 1780). Inscribed: XVI. and XVII. resp. / Ioh. El. Ridinger, inv. et del. / Mart. El. Ridinger, sculps. A. V. 31.8-32 x 21.4-21.6 cm.

Thienemann + Schwarz 359/360; Silesian Ridinger collection at Boerner XXXIX, 1875/76 ( “Extremely rare”, 1885! ); Reich auf Biehla Collection 103/04 ( “Extremely rare”, 1894! ). – Sheets XVI + XVII of the 46-sheet set “To the Special Events and Incidents at the Hunt” (“The rarest set of Ridinger’s sporting line engravings”, Schwerdt) etched exclusively by Martin Elias after predominantly fatherly designs and concluded posthumously in 1779.

shows two groups in hilly landscape, one of which – with a hound à la Bavarian Hiesel towering above all other of its kind – still plans while the other already moves downhill.

in preparation of the hare hunting.

The set itself “arranged almost throughout so that always two by two correspond with each other and form pendants, just as they have been sold in pairs, too” (Thienemann). Here then the rare sujets in

(“If they are missing, so this points to later impressions”, Thienemann).

On heavy laid paper with typographic watermark and sheet sizes of 51 x 33.8 (XVI; at top still the two original little hang-up holes, three most little tears in the extremely wide lower margin acid-freely backed) and 43.7 x 31.5 cm (XVII; untrimmed on the left side, weak little water-streak in the left corner of the upper margin) resp., the varyingly wide margins optically well proportioned round about.
Offer no. 14,956 / EUR  1176. / export price EUR  1117. (c. US$ 1561.) + shipping

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