Ridinger, Johann Elias (Ulm 1698 – Augsburg 1767). Reculer à la muraille. The going back at the Wall. A dapple-grey horse. Etching & engraving. (1734.) Inscribed: avec P. S. C. M. / J. E. Ridinger inv. des. et exc. Aug. Vind., otherwise in French-German-Latin parallel text as above. Sheet size 53.4 x 38.5 cm.
The sovereign sujet of the majestic set
in an impression of splendid chiaroscuro .
Thienemann + Schwarz 636. – New (or Vienna) Riding School XV (Th., dated, sheet 9). – Typographic watermark (presumably WANGEN as so characteristic for the contemporary impressions). – Trimmed within the still 7 mm wide white platemark. In this isolated small tears backed acid-freely, of which only one – imperceptible in the subject – still extends 2.2 cm into the background hatching of the subject. The text field besides especially in the center a little creased and there as also at one lower corner provisionally backed from old as with respect to the general delicacy of these large-sized sheets as the rareness of the set – Reich auf Biehla had it only in the new impressions of c. 1850 (no. 144; 1894) – should not be overrated though.
Offer no. 15,529 / EUR 980. / export price EUR 931. (c. US$ 1268.) + shipping
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