Ridinger, Johann Elias (Ulm 1698 – Augsburg 1767). L’Elan acquiert sa grandeur à l’age de six ans, et n’a ordinairement que deux petits quelque une. (The Elk or Moose obtains its Height in its Sixth Year only, usually they have two, but also only one calf.) A capital bull in imperial position on a rocky plateau. Placed back two deer. Etching + engraving. (1736.) Inscribed: Cum Priv. Sac. Cæs. Majest. / I. El. Ridinger inv. pinx. sculps. et excud. Aug. Vind., otherwise in German/French/Latin as before. 34.7 x 42.6 cm.
Thienemann + Schwarz 231. – Sheet 36 (in the rich Silesian Ridinger collection at Boerner XXXIX [1885], 1799 only as a ruin and in 1894 only as new impression within item 24 of the first-class collection Reich auf Biehla) of the “Study of the Wild Animals along with the Excellent Poetry of the Highly Famous Mr. Barthold Heinrich Brockes” as rich subtext in German. – Splendid impression on especially heavy wide-margined laid paper watermarked with crown coat-of-arms with tag. – Smoothed centre-fold. Some quite weak minimal brown spots almost only in the outer subtext.
Offer no. 28,935 / EUR 1100. / export price EUR 1045. (c. US$ 1451.) + shipping
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