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ridinger hunt par force
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Autographs & Manuscripts · Bibliophily · The Red Series
Drawings · Prints · Paintings · XXth Century
William Hogarth
Johann Elias Ridinger · Joseph Georg Wintter · Rugendas Artist Dynasty
Animals , Hunting , Environment · Fishing & Angling · Horses & Riding
Cartography · Views & Local History · Law / Proclamations
Miscellanea: Books · Prints · Portraits
Autographs & Manuscripts
- “The Koch Collection is a European matter”
Georg Kinsky, Manuscripts – Letters – Documents from Scarlatti to Stravinsky.
Catalogue of the Musical Autograph Collection Louis Koch - The General’s extravagance
four weeks before leading the Kapp Putsch/Kapp-Lüttwitz Putsch :
General Walther von Lüttwitz: first the two Ridingers, but then stage the Putsch - 9 years before Heinrich Heine’s “Weaver’s Song” :
Promemoria of the leather manufacture C. W. Müller & Co. in Hamburg
towards a chamber there as military procurement office in regard of supplied boots - About theatre, culture & art :
Oscar Linke (writer & editor), Autograph Documents from Berlin & Weimar - 673,120 mark — but only with marital permission :
Certificate of heirship for Louise Friederike Therese Schubert, née Häussler
Bibliophily
- The Otter Copy with book + inlaid printing plate :
Johann Elias Ridinger, Representation of the Fair Game
in the first edition of the final state - Wonderful Homage on the Art of Mezzotint
Ulrich Christoffel, Meisterwerke englischer Schabkunst von 1757 bis 1833
One hundred gravures - Exemplaire enrichi — from the drawing to the ready book
The able-bodied publisher’s 5-piece canon
Drawing – Engraver’s Proof – Clean Sheet – Book in Preferential & Ordinary Binding
uniquely reflected here
by an extraordinary symbiosis of pictorial charm, instruction & bibliophily
Günther Tordsen Schulz, Under Sail ’round Cape Horn
A live-illustrated tall ship voyage Hamburg – Nitrate-Chili – Hamburg - To Bonn’s Spectacular Beethoven Jubilé 175 Years Ago
Gustav Schilling (ed.), BEETHOVEN-ALBUM.
A Commemorative Book of Grateful Love and Veneration for the Great Deceased
In extravagant binding with ducal crown - “What a whirling plenitude of impressions this volume gives!”
Zingg – Adrian Zingg’s Album 1757-1790
The Red Series©
- In Extravagant Russia Leather Binding
Atlas Rvssicvs
In deep coloring as exceedingly rare only - No. I/XL of the Luxury Edition: The Heinrich Stinnes Copy
The Venuswagen
A Collection of Erotic Private Editions with 78 Original Prints
9 volumes (all published) - Copy of the Century in Imperial Ruby Leather
Charles Le Brun, The Triumphs of Alexander the Great - Master binding with fore-edge painting “Aglaya”
F(yodor). M(ikhaylovich). Dostoyevsky, (The Idiot) - In ruby morocco and here for the first time
Johann Heinrich Tischbein II, Collection of 170 engravings after drawings
Drawings
- For the illustrated papers :
Friedrich Heubner, The Swell - More fascinating by each fresh look
Johann Jacob Ridinger (?), Many Lynxes are the Deer’s Death - The perhaps most spectacular drawing of the 18th century :
Johann Elias Ridinger, Alexander the Great at the Hyphasis Autumn 326 B.C. - 3 x illustrious prior possession
Ridinger’s “Ingenious Sketch”
Johann Elias Ridinger, Big Wild He-cat dispensing Justice among Three Ducks
Red chalk related to Th. 180, 1069 & 219 as well as ideally 389 - “Visionary light effects complete the charm”
Franz Heckendorf, Lugano
Prints
- Peter Halm, View at Mayence
- Exceedingly Rare for Andreani — Almost Unique for Ridinger
Johann Elias Ridinger, Triumph of Death (after Giovanni Fortuna/Andrea Andreani)
“Death’s Arch of Triumph” as a “pasticcio of iconographic, iconological, and artistic citations” - On the left an aqueduct directs the water pipe to the house
Franz Edmund Weirotter, Water Pipe at the Mount Viminale in Rome - No frills fantastic main sheet in the 2nd state of the 1st version :
Johann Elias Ridinger, Omnia Mihi Subdita / The Rule of Death - “An exceedingly rich, well-worked sheet”
Johann Elias Ridinger, Alexander the Great crosses with his Army the Tigris
Paintings
- “One of the world’s 7 finest vistas”
Carl Friedrich Karthaus, Rhine Landscape with Rolandswerth/Roland’s Arch, Nonnenwerth and Drachenfels/Wolkenburg - Autonomous painting of most beautiful appeal :
Georg Adam Eger, The Stag turns to Bay in the Water, the Hounds are ceased and He receives the Coup de Grâce - With the brands of the Antwerp Guild of St. Luke before 1617
Andries van Eertvelt, Entrance of the Port of Genoa with Papal Galleon - “They even surpass those in color charm”
Siegwald Johannes Dahl, Roebuck in Winter Forest - “A fine and perfectly preserved painting”
Aert van der Neer, River Landscape by Moonlight
XXth Century
- Gert Biese, Two Resting Woman
- Special impression in brown on Japanese vellum :
Oskar Kokoschka, Pope Leo X after Raffael’s portrait of 1518 - Piet van Wyngaerdt, Snow Landscape with Houses beneath Trees at a Road
- Friedrich Heubner, The Swell
- Dieter Hiesserer, Abstract Sexual Intercourse
William Hogarth
- The complete Hogarth in Anthony Peacock’s copy :
158 plates, described & commented by the Rev. John Trusler - Need of Reform with the Execution of Sentence :
Bambridge on Trial for Murder
by a Committe of the House of Commons - The Industrious ‘Prentice
grown rich, & Sheriff of London
Industry & Idleness VIII - The Lottery
- “A Masterpiece of Physiognomic Character Portrayal”
Simon Lord Lovat
Johann Elias Ridinger
- Ridinger’s Martens, one of which acted as
model for the “Blue Rider” Franz Marc
Beech Marten & Pine Marten
The original printing plates for Th. 475 & 476 - The as instructive as painterly sheet
The Surrounded Hunt - The as constructive as painterly sheet
How the Roes are catched in Nets - Here in undescribed even larger variant :
Mary with the Child at the Ionic Column - The as classical as painterly sujet
The Par Force Hunt
Rugendas Artist Dynasty
- “These sets … document the paintings” :
Georg Philipp Rugendas I, Horsemen, Cavalry Battles, and Camp Scenes from 1693–1705 in chiaroscuro - Ride with the great horses Rugendas –
Two most rare graphic pendants of the late period :
Georg Philipp Rugendas I, Assembling for the Ride - From the Largest of the Augsburg Dressages & Schools
Georg Philipp Rugendas I, Here the young horse learns galloping in due style … - From the Largest of the Augsburg Dressages & Schools
Georg Philipp Rugendas I, So the long rope teaches the young horse trotting … - “… Please the Javelin of the Libyan”
Rugendas’ Lion Hunt Rarity – Count Stillfried’s Copy?
Georg Philipp Rugendas I, Lion Hunt
Joseph Georg Wintter
- Joseph Georg Wintter, The Resting Young Royal or Bengal Tiger
- Joseph Georg Wintter, Cat’s Head
- As the big cats of each other, so Wintter has the knack of them
Joseph Georg Wintter, Panther and Lioness locked in Fight - Joseph Georg Wintter, Country Palace
- “Wintter ex Monachi” — The fine pendants
Joseph Georg Wintter, The Hunter lying in wait for the Stag of 10 Points — The Stag of 10 Points barked dead
Animals , Hunting , Environment
- “… have drawn myself from a Taxidermied Original”
Johann Elias Ridinger, African Elk. Elan d’Afrique nom(m)é Couttou - Johann Elias Ridinger, The Stag caught in the Turn-iron
- Still without the 3rd hare :
Johann Elias Ridinger, Lying in wait for Hares
and How They are driven by the Stoberhund
Traced & ruddled preparatory drawing in reverse for Th. 45
from the Dr. Edward Peart Collection - Martin Elias Ridinger, A Crocodile with the Comb Back. Le Crocodile
- I can afford it :
Friedrich Heubner, The Swell
Fishing & Angling
- Ludwig Dill, Coral Fishers
- Benedict-Henry Revoil, Pêches dans l’Amérique du nord
- Pu-Quà, A Fishmonger
- So strange :
William Hogarth, Shrimps! The crab-girl - Wrasses – Labrus
Horses & Riding
- Barely known equestrian portrait :
Martin Elias Ridinger, Ludovjcus VIII. D. G. Landgravius Hassiæ-D(armstadiæ) - Belonging to the
“drawings of partly extraordinary delicacy”
Siegwald Johannes Dahl, Put to the Carriage - Circular … Announcing a Composed Work on Horse-breeding
- “As a Rarity paid for Very Dearly in 1743”
Johann Elias Ridinger, This Young Tiger Horse had this Ear-Bouquet of black color
The original printing plate to Th. 280 - “These sets … document the paintings” :
Georg Philipp Rugendas I
Horsemen, Cavalry Battles, and Camp Scenes from 1693-1705
in chiaroscuro by Johann Christian Rugendas
Cartography
- Languedoc & Roussillon – the region of good wine :
Carte des Gouvernements Languedoc, de Foix et de Roussillon,
avec la Partie Orientale du Gouv. de Guyenne - Just one word: “Chablys” :
Burgundy – Carte des Gouvernements de Bourgogne,
de Franche Comté et de Lyonnois - Ireland – Vltoniae Orientalis Pars
- Les Indes Orientales et leur Archipel
- Catherine the Great presents Russia’s 3rd own general map :
Russia – Ivan Fomic Treskot + Jakob F. Schmidt, Tabula Geographica Generalis Imperii Russici
Views & Local History
- Senlis
- The tomb of Archduke Ernest of Austria :
Interior of St Gudule’s Church Brussels - Nauvoo (Mississippi)
- Johann Adolf Lasinsky, View of Rudesheim
- “Important Colorist”
Alexander Bertelsson, Boats at Lake Walchen, Bavaria
Law / Proclamations
- Royally approved Draft
for a new fee for the ferrymen of the city of Glückstadt
(Sep. 27, 1820) - Decree of Charles I, Duke of Brunswick-Luneburg, prohibiting price harassing of the brewers by the landlords (1745)
- The people’s regime in the revolution’s hunting law :
L(ouis). Rondonneau (ed.), Code de la Chasse et de la Pêche - Resolution + Publication by the Royal Holstein=Lauenburg Supreme Court at Glückstadt in the matter of privateers and their prizes in the harbors and navigable waters of the duchies (May 17, 1823)
- Need of reform with the execution of sentence :
William Hogarth, Bambridge on Trial for Murder by a Committe of the House of Commons
Miscellanea
Books – Prints – Portraits
Books
- Wonderful Homage on the Art of Mezzotint
Ulrich Christoffel, Meisterwerke englischer Schabkunst von 1757 bis 1833
One hundred gravures - The 1848 March Revolution
or
Berlin’s Parliament then and today
“under the system of the folks of the left”
Common Weekly for the districts Aschersleben,
Calbe, Mansfeld and the neighbouring … Anhalt. counties - German Wedding Regulations from 1604
Decree of Heinrich Julius Duke of Brunswick-Luneburg, concerning the Procedure of Wedding Celebrations - Prussia – (H. G. V. R. Count of Mirabeau), Atlas de la Monarchie Prussienne
- Mann – Neue Schweizer Rundschau
Prints
- Chess Match, Oxford and Cambridge
- Métier à Draps, – de Camelots et à la petite Navetté, – de Tisserand, – de Toile et Toilerie
- Oil consumption in the old days
William Henry Pyne, Lamp-Lighter - Eugène Louis Lami, Grande fête au Château de Versailles / Une Soirée chez le Duc d’Orléans
- Laplander and Lapp Woman resp.
from Karasjock in Finmarken (Norway)
Portraits
- Hogarth Painting the Comic Muse
- “The Programmatic Mezzotint”
IOH. ELIAS RIDINGER Pictor et Scalptor Augustanus - Lvdovicvs XV. Galliarum et Navarræ Rex
- Thomas Morell, S.T.P-S.S.A.
- Joanna, Grand Duchess of Florence, née archduchess of Austria
“ The print arrived and the packaging was wonderful – thank you for your care with this item! The print is lovely … If you ever see any other prints of horses like this, please let me know … ”
“ Hello Jan and thank you for the wonderful email, I do speak German, though … My co-author is German, so if you could send the brochure I am sure that the information will be appreciated and used properly … Again, thank you for the wonderful service and communication, and please keep me in mind if other … horse prints come in ”
(Mrs. K. K. S., April 5 & 13 resp., 2016)