Since the Days of Augustus
Imperial Synonym for Superior Power
Ridinger, Johann Elias (Ulm 1698 – Augsburg 1767). Le capricorne n’ont qu’un quelque sois deux de petits, leur grandeur est accomplie à la age de 4. ou 5. ans, et deviennent fort vieux. The Ibex they have only 1. occasionally 2. young ones, reach their complete size only in the 4th or 5th Year and grow very old. Two bucks & 1 doe on the highest nose. Etching and engraving. (1736.) Inscribed: Cum Priv. Sac. Cæs. Majest. / I. El. Ridinger inv. delin. sculps. et excud. Aug. Vindel., otherwise as above in German, French, Latin, & below. 34.7 x 42.4 cm.
Thienemann + Schwarz 234. – Sheet 39 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. – Watermark Great Fleur-de-lis. – Margins laterally 3.7-4.1, above & below 2.2-3.3 cm wide. – On the left in the rocks unobtrusive small wormhole, in the right margin of the subject faint pressure trace. Above tear still extending to the wide platemark and another smaller one in the wide white margin below, both backed acid-freely. – On the back scribbles by a collector’s grandson.
THE SOVEREIGN SUJET
as state before the numbering
as unknown to literature .
“ … I consider , by what means , by his horns’ strength and splendor , The Creator has made these cliff=citizens , so secure against danger As he not only hangs himself onto them , no , if he falls anywhere , As he throws it before protects his head , that he is not smashed to pieces . His daring eye and firm tigh do not shy of any chasms … who is it then , who has not to admire the wise might of God … ”
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 MARVELOUS QUALITY & THEREFORE RARITY ,
for even in exemplary old Ridinger collections the old impressions of this as painterly as 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 with present one moreover just as new impression of about 1850, while Coppenrath (1889) could not obtain the sheet at all. However not one of the 41 sheet as
state as , unknown to literature , present one !
Offer no. 15,491 / EUR 1300. / export price EUR 1235. (c. US$ 1682.) + shipping
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(Sign. L. B., April 5, 2002)