TYROL
in
“ earliest representations of
pure mountain landscapes from the Tyrol ”
Ehrenberg (Ernberg) / Lech – Beaumont, Jean François Sir Albanis de (Chambéry 1755 – 1812). The Barriere at the Castle of Ehremberg. Alps massif centred on Ehrenberg Castle. On the right the High Castle, on the left at the foot of the Falkenberg accross the pass isolated farms and right in front a peasant driving a cart-load home. Colored aquatint by Cornelis Apostool (1762 Amsterdam 1844). 1792. Inscribed: A. Beaumont del. / C. Apostool sculp. / Published as the Act directs Jany 1. 1792. by T. & G. Egerton Whitehall, for the Author, title as above. 31.6 x 44.7 cm.
Especially fine Tyrolese mountain landscape in the splendid original colouring
of the former Ehrenberg Castle – then strongest fortifications of the Ausserfern, consisting of Ehrenberg Defile, fortress, High Castle, and Fort Claudia – at the River Lech on the road from Fussen to the Upper Inn Valley, the old Via Claudia Augusta and salt road, on the northern border of Tyrol. – Wide-margined impression of the 1st edition on buff Whatman paper.
Sir Albanis distinguishes himself as draughtsman, engraver in aquatint, and landscapist as well as architect. Hailing from the Piedmont he was naturalized in England. Egg says on him:
“ Publishes a large number of views from Italy and the Alps between 1787 and 1806 which he partly engraves himself in aquatint manner and partly lets be engraved by Cornelis Apostool. His engravings belong
to the earliest representations of pure mountain landscapes from the Tyrol … ”
Apostool, to be reckoned like Goethe among the so-called amateur artists, received his education at the Amsterdam Drawing Academy (1784-1786) by the landscapist Hendrik Meijer, whom in the early 90s he subsequently accompanied to England, from where he returned in 1796. His c. 80
fine landscape aquatints esteemed by the connoisseurs
– published in several sets between 1790 and 1795 – were the result of that period artistically so extraordinarily fertilizing to him. In 1808 he became the first director of the Royal Amsterdam Museum.
Offer no. 15,244 / EUR 890. / export price EUR 846. (c. US$ 1185.) + shipping
– – The same as aquatint by Apostool printed in brown. 1792. Inscribed: A. Beaumont del. / C. Apostool sculp. / Published as the Act directs Jany 1. 1792. by T. & G. Egerton Whitehall, for the Author, title as above. 31.5 x 44.8 cm. – Wide-margined impression from the 1st edition on buff Whatman paper. – See the complete description.
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– further painterly Tyrol views by Beaumont see below –
Ridinger’s Tyrolese Lake Inn
– the Lake Wild-See near Seefeld ? –
for Helbing 1900 one of the most valuable sheets of the set
Ridinger, Martin Elias (1730 Augsburg 1780). In the Tyrol at the Lake Inn (the Lake Wild-See near Seefeld?) it happened as I took a walk early in the morning as forest keeper there that I encountered a so-called white-tailed eagle (Th.: cormorant) with its young ones of which in this moment a large bird of prey (Th.: white-tailed eagle) tried to take a young one, and really took away. The forest keeper with his dog on the right among trees and shrubs, the attack/defence over the water near the lakeside, at the distant shore a church. Etching with engraving after assumedly own design. Inscribed: XXXI. / M. E. Ridinger. sc: A. V., otherwise in German as before. 25 x 33.5 cm.
Thienemann + Schwarz 374; Helbing XXXIV, Works by J. E. and M. E. Ridinger, 890: “Very rare” (1900!). – Sheet XXXI of the 46-sheet set “To the Special Events and Incidents at the Hunt” ( “The rarest set of Ridinger’s sporting line engravings”, Schwerdt 1928; the
Tyrolese Lake Inn scenery
here then already missing, too, in Coppenrath’s 33-sheet stock in 1889/90
and Helbing marked it within the 43 available to him
with 50 Goldmark and thus with great distance to the gross of the other 42 ) ,
etched exclusively by Martin Elias after predominantly fatherly designs and concluded posthumously in 1779.
At which not only after realization here Martin Elias’ importance for the Ridinger œuvre is much larger than that of an engaged co-worker as engraver only. Already at an age of thirty he just acted as a spiritus rector behind the backstage ensuring that sets were completed or, as here, edited posthumously.
And as Wolf Stubbe (Joh. El. Ridinger, 1966, pp. 16 f. + pl. 34), going in medias res, celebrates Th. 722, The Wild Bison and the Crocodile, from the Fights of Killing Animals as an artistic zenith of the late work in respect of its luminous efficiency, he pays tribute together, because judging by the plate, not the drawing, to Martin Elias as the etcher/engraver of that work. An aspect illustrating deeply the Ridinger team-work.
Johann Elias’ hand as draughtsman in this case not supported by his inscription, yet, though regarded by Thienemann as rough,
thematically very fine and in regard of the place very rare .
Compiling recourses of Martin Elias appear possible with one or another sheet of this set.
The set itself “arranged almost throughout so that always two by two correspond with each other and form pendants, just as they have been sold in pairs, too” (Th.). Here thus with sheet XXXII – In the Lake Ammergau in Bavaria … – , the attack of a white-tailed eagle on a wild (whooper?) swan with the huntsman together with hounds now on the left behind trees.
Warm-toned impression of the first edition
with the Roman number
(“If they are missing, so this points to later impressions”, Th.), laterally 5.5, otherwise 2.3-3 cm widemargined. – The slight browning at the back shining through only minimally in the wide margin.
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Painterly Tyrolese Mountain Landscapes
– continuation –
Lake Garda – Bernese Defile – Etsch – The Pass of Chiusa and distant Mountains near Belluno and Osseniego. On the left the Bernese Defile situated between Lake Garda and Etsch, on the right the pass with the fortifications of Fort Chiusa. With figures by the pass and on the Etsch. Colored aquatint by Apostool as above. 1792. Inscribed: A. Beaumont del. / C. Apostool sculpt. / Published as the Act directs Jany 1. 1792. by T. & G. Egerton, Whitehall. for the Author, title as above. 31.5 x 44.7 cm.
Fine Tyrolese mountain landscape in the splendid original coloring
and in the wide-margined impression of the 1st edition on buff Whatman paper. Isolated little foxspots. The colours of the part of the sky occasionally somewhat oxidized, but hardly disturbing. – See the complete description.
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– – – The same as aquatint by Apostool printed in brown. 1792. Inscribed: A. Beaumont del. / C. Apostool sculpt. / Published as the Act directs Jany 1. 1792. by T. & G. Egerton, Whitehall. for the Author, title as before. 31.5 x 44.7 cm.
Fine Tyrolese mountain Landscape in the wide-margined impression of the 1st edition on buff Whatman paper. – See the complete description.
Offer no. 15,247 / EUR 670. / export price EUR 637. (c. US$ 892.) + shipping
Hall, Solbad – Hanseven – The Verner Mountains, as seen from Inspruck. With Rumerjoch + Speckhorn as seen from Egerdach near Innsbruck. In centre in front Hall + Hanseven. On the left livestock and figures. Colored aquatint by Apostool as before. 1792. Inscribed: A. Beaumont delt. / C. Apostool sculp. / Published as the Act directs Jany. 1. 1792. by T. & G. Egerton. Whitehall, for the Author, title as above. 31.5 x 44.8 cm.
Painterly Tyrolese mountain landscape in the splendid original coloring
and in the wide-margined impression of the 1st edition on buff Whatman paper. – Especially in the sky parts a bit foxing. The colours by the way a little oxidized here and there, but hardly disturbing. – See the complete description.
Offer no. 15,248 / EUR 790. / export price EUR 751. (c. US$ 1052.) + shipping
– – The same as aquatint by Apostool printed in brown. 1792. Inscribed: A. Beaumont delt. / C. Apostool sculp. / Published as the Act directs Jany. 1. 1792. by T. & G. Egerton. Whitehall, for the Author, title as before. 31.5 x 45 cm.
Painterly mountain landscape in the wide-margined impression of the 1st edition on buff Whatman paper. – Quite slightly foxspotted, but only in the white margin a little bit eye-catching. – See the complete description.
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Chart of places connected with the Route from Venice to Fussen in Swabia. Map of the tour through the Rhaetian Alps Sir Albanis took in 1786. Engraving by C. Apostool (?). (1792.) 45.3 x 32 cm.
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Landeck Castle in Tyrol. View over Inn + bridge. Among the figurines in the foreground hunter at a road cross. Steel engraving by Alexander Richard Marx (1815 Nuremberg – after 1852), Nuremberg. Ca. 1855. 16.4 x 10.7 cm. – See the complete description.
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Lying at the Eisack – shipped to Innsbruck
Ridinger, Johann Elias (Ulm 1698 – Augsburg 1767). On August 20, 1653 this stag with this wondrous unknown antler (periwig antlers) has been … hunted by Ferdinand Carl Arch Duke of Austria … in valley and mountains at Mittenwald (recte Mittewald) between Brixen and Sterrin in the Aimer … and delivered to Innsbruck. Lying to the left on the banks of River Eisack (?). Etching and engraving. (1766-67.) Inscribed: Joh. El. Ridinger inv. sculps. et. exc. Aug. Vind., otherwise in German as before. 31.7 x 21.2 cm.
Thienemann + Schwarz 329. – Typographic + figurative (fleur-de-lis?) watermark. – Sheet 87 of the only posthumously concluded set of the “Wondrous Stags”. – Wide-margined impression of rich contrast.
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– – – The same as toned lithograph by Hermann Menzler printed by A. Renaud for L. J. Heymann in Berlin. (1863-65.) Inscribed: Gez. v. J. E. Ridinger, lith. v. H. Menzler, otherwise in German as before. 34.2 x 22.5 cm.
Joh. El. Ridinger’s Hunting Album III/3. – From the “Collection of Rare Stag’s Antlers Abnormities and Stag Pictures” listed as 3rd part. – The whole rare set almost unknown to literature and comprising 80 leaves, though practically to be completed just peu à peu. In the pictorial effect corresponding to that of the aquatint technique not used by Ridinger anymore and decidedly an enrichment for the collection. – On buff wide-margined paper. – See the complete description.
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Innsbruck 1730 – Vienna 1771
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