“ One can use them for Hunting ”
In the Interior of the Harz Mountains last time just under 200 years ago
Ridinger, Johann Elias (Ulm 1698 – Augsburg 1767). Les Linx sont de deux sortes, ont 2. ou 3. petis sont d’une vie longue. The Lynx, there are two Kinds, have 2. to 3. cubs, and shall live long. 9-headed lynx families – “of quite different age, and in characteristic postures ” (Th. with erroneously just 8 heads) – amongst brilliantly lit rock scenery. Etching and engraving. (1736.) Inscribed: 22. / Cum Priv. Sac. Cæs. Majest. / I. El. Ridinger invent. delin. sculps. et excud. Aug. V., otherwise as above in German, French, Latin, & below. 34.3 x 41.5 cm.
Thienemann + Schwarz 217. – Sheet 22 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. – Margins 3.3-4.9 cm wide. – The utterly smoothed centerfold reinforced on the back. Almost only in the white upper margin feebly foxed barely worth mentioning.
“ What a … cave , full of cracks full of clefts what burden of arched rocks , full of deep and dark vaults ! what a worthy nest of the animals … Not to no purpose: they serve us . One can use them for Hunting , and their hides have to protect us from severe chill .”
What latter should be no longer necessary for the good men of the warming age. However , after
“ The last lynxes were shot on the Harz Mountains in 1817 and 1818 … ”
they are now back again fetched patted and protected against shooting by just thought good eggheads. Nevertheless :
“ Of all game the roes suffer most by him and never a roe existence will come up where such a beast of prey does his foul work , thus his uprooting in our forests is welcomed only with gratification . Inside the Ilseburg hunting district of the Harz Mountains he had killed eight pieces of red deer only within one summer , among stags , not assessed those probably being unfound in those densities and ravines …
How hard he is to drive the huntings at the Harz Mountains prove , where an experienced hunt was hard on his heels within several winters before it could catch him … and there is getting at him with iron traps little and only by chance and all the more as the bait always has to be kept fresh ”
(Riesenthal, (Hunting Lexicon), 1882, 304 f.).
Here then yet nine of the predatory animals among themselves in their very own landscape ambience , confirming Ernst Welisch’s qualification of already 1901 after which Ridinger is 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 rich Silesian collection 1885 at Boerner, 1894 with Reich auf Biehla and at least without platemark 1889 with Coppenrath, too.
Offer no. 15,403 / EUR 730. / export price EUR 694. (c. US$ 945.) + shipping
– – – The same. Margins above & below 2.5-3.2, laterally 4.2-4.4 cm wide. – In the white lower margin two small backed tears, one of which with old trace of adhesive tape on the back. On the back scribbles by a collector’s grandson. – Of likewise shining-marvelous quality and therefore rarity.
Offer no. 15,590 / EUR 730. / export price EUR 694. (c. US$ 945.) + shipping
– – – The same not quite so unsurpassed fine and before all less wide-margined.
Offer no. 28,246 / EUR 510. / export price EUR 485. (c. US$ 661.) + shipping
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(Señ. G. E., 19. Dezember 2003)