“ They slaughter more than they eat ”
Ridinger, Johann Elias (Ulm 1698 – Augsburg 1767). Furets, ont 2. 3. ou 4. petis on dit que leurs vie soit de 10. ans et davantage. The Polecat. They have 2. 3. to 4. Cubs and shall reach 10. and more Years. A four-headed family before the “background of (a) fine landscape, with a high rock, on which a citadel”. Etching and engraving. (1736.) Inscribed: 20. / Cum Priv. Sac. Cæs. Majest. / I. El. Ridinger inv. pinx. Sculps. et excud. Aug. Vindel., otherwise as above in German, French, Latin, & below. 34.6 x 42 cm.
Thienemann + Schwarz 215. – Sheet 20 of the STUDY OF THE WILD ANIMALS with the subtext of the Hamburg pope of poets, jurist & senator, foremost, however, friend of Ridinger’s, Barthold Heinrich Brockes (1680-1747), in German. – Small typographic watermark. – Margins laterally 4.3-5, above & below 3.5 cm wide. – The utterly smoothed centerfold reinforced on the back.
“ The orderly in these wasteland and quite weed-grown fields is worthy , that one has a look at them … unexpectedly I see here four bloodthirsty egg-thieves burrow , in their eyes one can almost see the black little murder spirit . They slaughter more than they eat … But , except that they empty our houses of mice and rats … God did want to grant the poor, too, that they , by these animals’ hide , in grim frost , can warm themselves. ”
And not least and by chance already in 1901 Ernst Welisch qualified Ridinger as the indisputably “most important Augsburg landscapist of this time”. Here then
of shining-marvelous quality & therefore rarity ,
for even in exemplary old Ridinger collections the old impressions of particularly this so fine large-sized main set frequently figure as closely trimmed, damaged, and fully mounted. So including present one in the Silesian collection 1885 at Boerner, 1894 with Reich auf Biehla & at least without platemark also 1889 with Coppenrath.
Offer no. 15,397 / EUR 730. / export price EUR 694. (c. US$ 945.) + shipping
– – – The same. Margins on three sides 2.5-3.3, on the right 5.5 cm wide. – Unsuspicious worm-hole in a dead trunk on the left. – Of likewise shining-marvelous quality and therefore rarity.
Offer no. 15,588 / EUR 780. / export price EUR 741. (c. US$ 1009.) + shipping
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