Wintter, Joseph Georg (1751 Munich 1789). The Silhouette of the later Munich Gallery Director Georg von Dillis (Grüngiebing 1759 – Munich 1841) on a Plate below of an Urn, surrounded by Landscape with Strong Stag + two Sketch Books with Pencil opened at, i. a., Stag and Dog’s Head resp. Etching. 14.5 x 9.5 cm.
Niemeyer 128, II; Nagler 1 (The stag “is by Winter, the rest by Dillis”). – From the comprehensive 44-sheet Augsburg edition on buff paper Schwerdt III, 190, a ( “Rare” ) of earliest 1821. The wonderful quality of its impressions discloses the small editions and caused Schwerdt, not knowing the chronological factor, to assume proofs before the letter in many cases. But already on occasion of the here not otherwise proven 137-sheet edition Weigel 21336 stated in 1857: “Most sheets very rare”.
Copying the “graphic monument” (Morét) Thienemann 974 by the Ridinger sons for the father, in view of the youthful age of the “deceased” (Dillis was 30 at most!) the work appears as a rebellion of the following generation against the great shadow of the past master.
Wintter’s “etchings are fine and stand in their execution between those by Hollar and Riedinger. In 1784 W. became electoral Court and Hunting Engraver” (Nagler in vol. III, no. 68, of his Dictionary of Monogramists of 1863 and on his part additionally referring to the rarity of these fine plates). – The wide white margin somewhat foxing on two outer sides.
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