60 Years
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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
- Imperial Thanks
Ludwig Bartholomäus von Herttenstein, Grant of Arms for Johann Elias Ridinger
Augsburg 24 August 1746 - Late Letter unknown to Literature
as Résumé of the Œuvre & Character Sketch
Johann Elias Ridinger, Autograph letter of June 21, 1765 to Johann Georg Wille, Paris - “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
Bibliophily
- The prince’s copy of the Edwin Beinecke Library
Antonio Pigafetta, Magellan’s Voyage
With 23 colored full-page sketch-maps & innumerable colored initials - Bibliothèque Raphael Esmerian
- “What a whirling plenitude of impressions this volume gives!”
Zingg – Adrian Zingg’s Album 1757-1790 - The Monumental Luxury Edition
Giuseppe Bossi, Del Cenacolo di Leonardo da Vinci. Libri quattro
Leonardo’s Last Supper in all its Facets in contemporary brown half leather - 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 Russia Leather Binding
Atlas Rvssicvs
In deep coloring as exceedingly rare only - Earliest (?) Ridinger Photographicum
Johann Laifle, Ridinger-Album
50 Albumen Prints from the Original Etchings - 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) - In the Century of Ridinger:
Dukes of Brunswick-Luneburg, Hunting Edicts 1705-1805
Continuously Represented Game Law of a Whole Century - Binding designed by E. R. Weiß
Wilhelm Weigand (ed.), The Court of Louis XIV from the Memoirs of the Duke of Saint-Simon
Drawings
- Ride with the great horses Rugendas –
Two most rare graphic pendants of the late period :
Georg Philipp Rugendas I, Assembling for the Ride - Large-sized drawing of the Italianate Hendrik Verschuring
with both the stamps of the collection Friedrich Quiring, Eberswalde :
Hendrik Verschuring, Resting Hunters & Falconers - Precious also the material – vellum :
Le Brun – Lion Hunt. King-size pen and brown ink - From “the Famous Leipsic Heinrich Campe Collection of Drawings”
Georg Philipp Rugendas I, Three Horsemen - Belonging to the “drawings of partly extraordinary delicacy”
Siegwald Johannes Dahl, Put to the Carriage.
Young one-horse lively stepping out
Prints
- The rare set in the charming troubadour style :
Charles Aubry, Chasses Anciennes d’après les Manuscrits des XIV & XVe Siècles - François Boucher, Balais, Balais
- With representation of one of the legendary Roman aqueducts
Franz Edmund Weirotter, Old Property near Tivoli - George Moutard Woodward, Steward – Footman
- A Pig and A Pullet :
Richard Newton, Which Way Shall I Turn Me
Paintings
- With the brands of the Antwerp Guild of St. Luke before 1617
Andries van Eertvelt, Entrance of the Port of Genoa with Papal Galleon - “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
XXth Century
- “Rediscovered American Etcher” :
Stephen Windsor Parrish, An Old Farm near the Sea (Niles Farm, Cape Ann) - The Power of Colors and Nature
Franz Heckendorf, Landscape on Tenerife - The Lesser Uri of Paris :
Eugène Béjot, Le Pont Saint Louis, Paris - Giuseppe Santomaso, Memento Mori
- Macabre-beautiful :
Alfred Kubin, Memorial Tablet for the tragic death of the respectable and chaste maiden Helena Asen
William Hogarth
- Rich’s Triumphant Entry
- “… painted with the greatest pleasure”
Captain Thomas Coram - A terrifyingly timeless-topical didactic example :
John Wilkes or The Attempt
“to set Despotism … at the Place of the Legal Forms” - One of the most delicious Hogarth sujets
The Enraged Musician - This plate Hogarth later turned into “The Bruiser” :
Gulielmus Hogarth. Half-length self-portrait
Johann Elias Ridinger
- With the eagle as revelation of Creation :
The Evangelist S. John - First time
Undescribed variant of Francis of Assisi of Th. 1288 :
S. Franciscus Seraphicus - “…to show his nature and kind the better”
The Noble Stag’s Age - In this rich version an almost-unicum :
The Gamba Player based on a detail by Watteau - The White Spitsbergen Greenlandic Bear. L’ours blanc de Groenland
Rugendas Artist Dynasty
- The monumental equestrian portraits of the Von Roemer Collection :
Georg Philipp Rugendas I, Prince Eugene of Savoy & John Churchill Duke of Marlborough - Graphic unicum determined by the softness of its brush technique
Georg Philipp Rugendas II, Young Hunter with his Hounds propped over the Killed Game - “… Please the Javelin of the Libyan”
Rugendas’ Lion Hunt Rarity – Count Stillfried’s Copy?
Georg Philipp Rugendas I, Lion Hunt - 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 …
Joseph Georg Wintter
- A particular sujet :
Joseph Georg Wintter, Coarse Boar before Hissing Snake - Ridinger’s rutting rivals – joined in one :
Joseph Georg Wintter, Crying Stag of Odd 8 Ends in Rutting Season - Suite of 12 chalk lithographs not known to literature
and here ascertained completely supposedly for the First Time :
Raphael Wintter, Animal Drawings for Landscape Furnishing - “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 Three Dogs and the Bone
Animals , Hunting , Environment
- Johannes Stradanus (= Jan van der Straet),
Bird Hunt with Crossbows - Johann Elias Ridinger, The Beavers have 2. or three Young Ones, obtain their strength for breeding the other year; also grow ever more
- Forst-Calender
- Baron Münchhausen’s Hare?
Johann Elias Ridinger, Anno 1741. this Hare with 8 Legs and 2 hind Quarters has been shot in its burrow … - The people’s regime in the revolution’s hunting law :
L(ouis). Rondonneau (ed.), Code de la Chasse et de la Pêche
Fishing & Angling
- So strange :
William Hogarth, Shrimps! The crab-girl - The people’s regime in the revolution’s fishing regulations :
L(ouis). Rondonneau (ed.), Code de la Chasse et de la Pêche - Benedict-Henry Revoil, Pêches dans l’Amérique du nord
- Pu-Quà, Un Pêcheur avec une Écope
- Angling is the family’s pleasure
for it keeps the paterfamilias’ good spirits
Franz Edmund Weirotter, At the Lake near Bolsena (Lake Bolsena)
Horses & Riding
- Ride with the great horses Rugendas –
Two most rare graphic pendants of the late period :
Georg Philipp Rugendas I, Assembling for the Ride - Johann Elias Ridinger, Pirouette right on a circle
of the length of the horse - Georg Philipp Rugendas I, Detachments of Horsemen
- From the own stables fresh onto the table :
Cham, Six heures et demie
“Les cheveaux de Madame la Marquise sont on table” - The plenty of horses amidst the par force hunt :
Antoine Charles Horace Vernet, La chasse au cerf in 24 engravings
Cartography
- Les Indes Orientales et leur Archipel
- Nova et exactissima totius Italiæ, Sardiniæ et Corsicæ
- England – Northvmbria, Cvmberlandia, et Dvnelmensis Episcopatus
- Carte des Gouvernements Flandre Françoise,
d’Artois, de Picardie et du Boulenois - Just one word: “Chablys” :
Burgundy – Carte des Gouvernements de Bourgogne,
de Franche Comté et de Lyonnois
Views & Local History
- The three Castles Gleichen (Thuringia)
- Tyrol in “earliest presentations of pure mountain views”
- Blankenburg with Greifenstein (Thuringia)
- Bernhard Mannfeld, Melk on the Danube
- Johann Adolf Lasinsky, Coblence and Ehrenbreitstein
Law / Proclamations
- Dramatic composition &
masterly physiognomic description of characters :
William Hogarth, Paul before Felix
The trial against the apostle Paul
before Felix, the Roman procurator of Judaea - For the encouragement of the industrious & proficient
“the legal fixing of daily pay … is completely released by this”
Newly Revised Order of the Shipwrights (April 3, 1788) - Fighting for good and protection of the environment I :
Decree of Charles I, Duke of Brunswick-Luneburg concerning the increase of sparrow heads to be submitted (1749) - Hunting Proclamations & Statutes – Arranged Everyday Life
- When poachers are just collecting mushrooms in the Weser district :
Decree of Charles I, Duke of Brunswick-Luneburg, on behalf of the pretext of collecting mushrooms while poaching in the Weser district (Höxter-Holzminden) (1768)
Miscellanea
Books – Prints – Portraits
Books
- Friedrich Löhmann, Tables of the Currency Calculation …
- Hans Brandenburg, The Modern Dance
- Thomas Mann, Joseph und seine Brüder
- Sebastian Haffner, Preußen ohne Legende (Prussia without Legend)
- Thomas Mann zum Gedenken
Prints
- Tapisserie de Haute Lisse des Gobelins
- Very rare communal representation
William Henry Pyne, Watering-Cart - Hungarian Tycoon & Hungarian Noblewoman
- Pu-Quà, A Tambouriner
- Fine feathers make fine birds :
Historical and traditional costumes of Eurasia
Portraits
- Ludovjcus VIII. D. G. Landgravius Hassiæ-D(armstadiæ). Princeps Hersfeldiae, Comes in Catimeliboco, Decia, Ziegenhaina, Nidda, Schaumburgo, Isenburgo et Budinga etc. Sacræ Cæsareæ ac Regiæ Hungaricæ et Bohemicæ Apostol. Majestatis Supremus Campo Mareschallus et cohortis Dimacharum Summus Præfectus
- The original Polly Peachum of Gay’s Beggar’s Opera
Miss Lavinia Fenton, later Duchess of Bolton - Benjamin Hoadly Lord Bishop of Winchester
- Johann Noa Buirette von Oehlefeld auf Wilhelmsdorff in Nürnberg
- William Augustus, Duke of Cumberland
„ Vielen Dank, der Stich (Ridinger, Th. 288) ist gestern schon angekommen … Ich habe es schon ausgepackt … und mich sehr gefreut. Herzliche Grüße “
(Herr S. J., 4. Januar 2012)