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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
- 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 - “The Koch Collection is a European matter”
Georg Kinsky, Manuscripts – Letters – Documents from Scarlatti to Stravinsky.
Catalogue of the Musical Autograph Collection Louis Koch - About theatre, culture & art :
Oscar Linke (writer & editor), Autograph Documents from Berlin & Weimar - The prince’s copy of the Edwin Beinecke Library :
Antonio Pigafetta, Magellan’s Voyage
With 23 coloured full-page sketch-maps & innumerable coloured initials - Customs procedure & six-in-hand carriage horses :
Franz Egon Graf von Fürstenberg, Letter with autograph signature to the Elector of Treves
Bibliophily
- 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 - Bibliophily in all the splendor of the imperial & royal Austrian monarchy –
Ritter von Gutmann’s once personal copy no. I of II in vellum :
Ignaz Schwarz, (Catalog of the Ridinger Collection of Rudolf Ritter von Gutmann.) - “What a whirling plenitude of impressions this volume gives!”
Zingg – Adrian Zingg’s Album 1757-1790 - Wonderful Homage on the Art of Mezzotint
Ulrich Christoffel, Meisterwerke englischer Schabkunst von 1757 bis 1833
One hundred gravures - Showcase copy in red half leather with grand ducal supralibros :
Guild Order of Charles Frederick, Grand Duke of Saxony-Weimar-Eisenach,
for the weavers in the guild district Remda
The Red Series©
- In extravagant binding with ducal crown —
Bonn’s spectacular Beethoven jubilé
Gustav Schilling (ed.), BEETHOVEN-ALBUM.
A Commemorative Book of Grateful Love and Veneration for the Great Deceased - The Toils of 1717 – The Toils Plate of 1729
Unprecedentedly Unique the Unison of Time + Sujet
Johann Elias Ridinger & George William Margrave at Brandenburg,
The Hunting Ground surrounded by Flaring Cords - Le Grand Exemplaire
Johann Elias Ridinger, The Fair Game hunted by the different kinds of hounds
With the original printing plate of the title as solitaire on the board
and enclosed original preparatory drawing in reverse for The Lynx - Binding designed by E. R. Weiß
Wilhelm Weigand (ed.), The Court of Louis XIV from the Memoirs of the Duke of Saint-Simon - Hymn on Beethoven in Leather Inlaid Binding
Romain Rolland, Jean-Christophe. Nouvelle Édition
Drawings
- Alfred Jean-Marie Paris, Nice
- Master of the South German landscape :
Gustav Kampmann, Greifenberg - When India stopped the West :
Alexander the Great at the Hyphasis Autumn 326 B.C. of 1723
The perhaps most spectacular drawing of the 18th century - Chief washed drawing from the Master’s early days :
Johann Elias Ridinger, To catch the Wolf in the Pit with the Sheep - “ … as one doesn’t find them soon fuller of character ”
August Schleich, Troop of Boars
Prints
- Franz Edmund Weirotter, Vues de la Normandie
- There they go :
Thomas Landseer, What ho! does the Devil arrive! - With art-historically important core :
Johann Heinrich Roos, Animal Pieces. Set of 6 sheet - Paul Bril. Waterfall at Tivoli (?)
- The largest work of his œuvre ;
Johann Elias Ridinger, The Siege of Halicarnassus by Alexander the Great
Paintings
- “A fine and perfectly preserved painting”
Aert van der Neer, River Landscape by Moonlight - “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 Relays are set out by the Commander of the Hunt - Atmospheric Mise-en-scène of a Winter Day drawing to a Close
Eligius (Eloy) Baron von Seyfert, The Darmstadt Tusker of 1765
Immediate copy after Georg Adam Eger’s lost painting - With the brands of the Antwerp Guild of St. Luke before 1617
Andries van Eertvelt, Entrance of the Port of Genoa with Papal Galleon
XXth Century
- Hoi Lebadang, Barques en Orient
- Oskar Graf, Knight
- Friedrich Heubner, The Swell
- Gert Biese, Two Resting Woman
- Millet – condensed
Dirk Koning, The Gleaners
William Hogarth
- Rakewell marries an Old Maid
The Rake’s Progress V - The Man of Taste
- The Young Heir taking Possession
The Rake’s Progress I - France
- Apprehended by a Magistrate
A Harlot’s Progress III
Johann Elias Ridinger
- The catalog of a Ridinger collection
as gem of the imperial & royal Austrian monarchy :
Ritter von Gutmann’s once personal copy
no. I of II in vellum - … up up and away in snow & ice :
The Reindeer obtain their Height and Power in their Fifth Year
usually have but one calf - Well-made Representation of Oryx & Springbok
African Chamois. Bouc bezoardique - A Rare Good Sport of the Count of Hohenlohe-Öhringen :
Anno 1720. His Excellency the Count of Ohringen himself
has shot this entirely white fox close to Ohrenthal - Splendidly large-sized, splendidly high-graded drawing
and as such exceedingly precious today :
“The Spring of the Hounds”
The pictorial drawing for Th. 105
Rugendas Artist Dynasty
- Georg Philipp Rugendas I, Before the Battle
- “These sets … document the paintings” :
Georg Philipp Rugendas I, Horsemen, Cavalry Battles, and Camp Scenes from 1693–1705 in chiaroscuro - From the Largest of the Augsburg Schools
Georg Philipp Rugendas I, Now in many lessons the lively horse … - Tangible speed of movements hard to render
Georg Philipp Rugendas I, Three Horsemen
From “the famous Leipsic Heinrich Campe Collection of Drawings” - He discovered Brazil
Johann Moritz Rugendas, Picturesque Voyage in Brazil
In the original Solander box as furnished only initially
Joseph Georg Wintter
- Cattle by the crème de la crème :
Joseph Georg Wintter, Animal Pieces after several Masters - 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 - Joseph Georg Wintter, The Silhouette of the later Munich Gallery Director
Georg von Dillis - Joseph Georg Wintter, The Three Dogs and the Bone
Animals , Hunting , Environment
- Johann Heinrich Tischbein II, A Boar Hunt
- Ridinger-Par Force Hunt Etching as Oil Painting by Georg Adam Eger or his Circle :
Johann Elias Ridinger, The Relays are set out by the Commander of the Hunt
Executed as oil painting in the colors of Hesse-Darmstadt - Co-Founder of the Dynasty of Karlsbad Glass Cutters
Josef Anton Pfeiffer, Female Hound with Six Puppies - Colored in attractive fitting palette
Johann Elias Ridinger, Wild He-Cat lurking for the Prey - Presumably one and only represention of chameleons in Ridinger’s œuvre
Johann Elias Ridinger, That God is very marvelous in all his works the chameleon shows …
Fishing & Angling
- The Fishing Experience in Canada :
W(illiam). Ross King, The Sportsman and Naturalist in Canada - Sailfish – Bayonet Fish – Istophorus Triactis (= Istiophorus platyterus)
- So strange :
William Hogarth, Shrimps! The crab-girl - Pu-Quà, A Fisherman with a Scoop
- Only light penalties for fish thieves in 1797
Publicandum (by the Royal Electoral Marchian War and Domain Chamber)
On behalf of punishing the fish and especially carp thefts from the carp ponds
Horses & Riding
- Johann Elias Ridinger, The going back at the Wall
- From the own stables fresh onto the table :
Cham, Six heures et demie
“Les cheveaux de Madame la Marquise sont on table” - “I have not seen this sheet colored” (Th.)
Johann Elias Ridinger, Sable Gray. Poil d’Etourneau. - A rather rare scene
and as in the New World a rarer location, too :
The False Start Jerome Park New York
before the characteristic grandstand - No fox but many horses :
Antoine Charles Horace Vernet, La Chasse
Cartography
- Carte de la Tartarie Chinoise
- Italy – Central + Northern Italy – L’Italie divisée en se différens Etats
- Worked one year after publication of Don Quixote :
Castile – Castiliæ Veteris et novæ Descriptio - Italy – South Italy along with Sardinia, Sicily + Tunisia
- Tartaria sive Magnichami Imperiorum
Views & Local History
- Johann Adolf Lasinsky, Rheineck Castle (opposite Hönningen)
- Louis François Cassas, Château et portion de la ville de Hemss (Jadis Emèse, Homs)
- “Finest Photo Covering”
The Great Dyke Breach in the St. Peter’s Flood March 5, 1651
Pieter Nolpe, Het Door Breecken vande St. Anthonis Dyck buyten Amsterdam - “Important Colorist”
Alexander Bertelsson, Boats at Lake Walchen, Bavaria - Johann Adolf Lasinsky, View of Andernach
Law / Proclamations
- Hamburg’s Shipping & Trade
during the American War of Independence :
Regulation, in regard of Hamburg’s Trade and Shipping, during the War (September 18, 1778) - Need of reform with the execution of sentence :
William Hogarth, Bambridge on Trial for Murder by a Committe of the House of Commons - All about water :
Ahasver Fritsch, Jus Fluviaticum, Romano-Germanicum Tripartium - Decree of Charles I, Duke of Brunswick-Luneburg, prohibiting price harassing of the brewers by the landlords (1745)
- Freedom of Service 400 Years Ago :
The Shipwrights Order (August 29, 1631)
Miscellanea
Books – Prints – Portraits
Books
- Mann – Neue Schweizer Rundschau
- 60 Years Ascension Day Binge
to Günter Neumann’s 25th Stage Jubilee
Berlin – “(The Islander doesn’t lose the Patience)” - Mann – Die Neue Rundschau
- 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 - Leo Lesquereux, Examinations about the Peatbogs in general
Prints
- Gabriel Metsu, La Riboteuse Hollandoise
- Wine Inspection
- Maria Beatrix Ducisa Eboracensis &.ct., Serenissima Princeps
- Vicar – “What is life without the enjoyment of a Friend”
- Of remarkable condition :
James Ward, Industrious Cottagers
Portraits
- Catharine of Braganza
- William Augustus, Duke of Cumberland
- Gulielmus Hogarth
- Martin Folkes Esq.
- Lvdovicvs XV. Galliarum et Navarræ Rex
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(Frau A. G., 10. September 2014)