55 Years
The Fine & Rare
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
- 673,120 mark — but only with marital permission :
Certificate of heirship for Louise Friederike Therese Schubert, née Häussler - The General’s extravagance
four weeks before leading the Kapp Putsch/Kapp-Lüttwitz Putsch :
General Walther von Lüttwitz: first the two Ridingers, then the putsch - 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 prince’s copy of the Edwin Beinecke Library :
Antonio Pigafetta, Magellan’s Voyage
With 23 coloured full-page sketch-maps & innumerable coloured initials
Bibliophily
- The Lion Copy
as the deviating AUTHOR’S COPY
grangerized with an additional worldwide uniqueness :
Johann Elias Ridinger, Illustration of the Fair Game with the respective Tracks and Traces
in proofs before numbering - 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 - 300 years porcelain production in Germany ,
265 years porcelain production in Berlin
Nicola Moufang, Old Berlin in Porcelain
“The golden age of porcelain” –
adequately in the hand-bound édition de luxe - On Vellum (!) – Bibliophily in the New World :
John Keats, Unpublished Poem To His Sister Fanny, April 1818 - Master binding with fore-edge painting “Aglaya”
F(yodor). M(ikhaylovich). Dostoyevsky, (The Idiot)
The Red Series©
- The Lion Copy
as the deviating AUTHOR’S COPY
grangerized with an additional worldwide uniqueness
Johann Elias Ridinger, Illustration of the Fair Game with the respective Tracks and Traces
in proofs before numbering - 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) - 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 - In the Century of Ridinger:
Dukes of Brunswick-Luneburg, Hunting Edicts 1705-1805
Continuously Represented Game Law of a Whole Century
Drawings
- Robert Eduard Bary, Wartburg. Part of the Court Yard
- More fascinating by each fresh look
Johann Jacob Ridinger (?), Many Lynxes are the Deer’s Death - Precious also the material – vellum :
Le Brun – Lion Hunt. King-size pen and brown ink - Large-sized drawing of the Italianate Hendrik Verschuring
with both the stamps of the collection Friedrich Quiring, Eberswalde :
Hendrik Verschuring, Resting Hunters & Falconers - Siegwald Johannes Dahl, Broken down and now recognized by the cavalryman as his former horse
Prints
- So one gets up :
Johannes Stradanus, Staphæ, sive Stapedes. The Invention of the Stirrup - Joseph Georg Wintter, The Three Dogs and the Bone
- First time
Before the background of
what makes for Jerusalem’s Immortalness
Johann Elias Ridinger, In manus tuas commendo Spiritum meum - The fear of the duelist before the shot :
Thomas Landseer, “Rubbish may be — Shot here” - Franz Edmund Weirotter, Vues de la Normandie
Paintings
- “A fine and perfectly preserved painting”
Aert van der Neer, River Landscape by Moonlight - 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 - 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 - Autonomous painting of most beautiful appeal :
Georg Adam Eger
The Relays are set out by the Commander of the Hunt
XXth Century
- “Visionary light effects complete the charm”
Franz Heckendorf, Lugano - Macabre-beautiful :
Alfred Kubin, Memorial Tablet for the tragic death of the respectable and chaste maiden Helena Asen - A Backhuysen for the Birthday :
Horst Janssen, Backhuizen greets Stubbe at June 7, 1988 - Rainer Scheithauer, Nude of a Woman 7
- Anonymous. No Title (Crossroads with Houses)
William Hogarth
- Debates on Palmistry
- Stirred immense sensation :
Analysis of Beauty. Set of 2 sheet - Vanity raising value :
The Time Smoking a Picture
(As Statues moulder into Worth) - Henry Fox, Lord Holland
- Funeral Ticket
Johann Elias Ridinger
- Inspired by Watteau :
The work of self-identification for the minimized Ridinger
The Hippocrene or The Donation of Water - The Rare Lions in a Landscape of the Rubens Workshop
Tableau de P. P. Rubens. de la Galerie Roïale de Dresde - Capital painterly drawing from the early days :
To catch the Wolf in the Pit with the Sheep
Washed brush and brown pen and ink for Th. 41 - Utterly undescribed 3rd version
as larger-sized variant to Th.-St. 1416
St. Francis of Paula, founder of the “Minims” - The hunting luck of Frederick’s general
These stags No. 1 and No. 2 … No. 3 … And the No. 4
&
These Roe Bucks … The No. 1 … the No. 2 … No. 3 … And finally also No. 4. …
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 - Georg Philipp Rugendas I, Detachments of Horsemen
- Graphic unicum determined by the softness of its brush technique
Georg Philipp Rugendas II, Young Hunter with his Hounds propped over the Killed Game - From the Largest of the Augsburg Schools
Georg Philipp Rugendas I, Now in many lessons the lively horse …
Joseph Georg Wintter
- Joseph Georg Wintter, The Resting Young Royal or Bengal Tiger
- 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 Three Dogs and the Bone
- Ridinger’s rutting rivals – joined in one :
Joseph Georg Wintter, Crying Stag of Odd 8 Ends in Rutting Season
Animals , Hunting , Environment
- Augsburg’s cembra nut :
Johann Elias Ridinger, Small Pointer before Quails - Colored in attractive fitting palette
Johann Elias Ridinger, Wild He-Cat lurking for the Prey - Johann Elias Ridinger, The Beavers have 2. or three Young Ones, obtain their strength for breeding the other year; also grow ever more
- “… they even surpass those in color charm”
Siegwald Johannes Dahl, Roebuck in Winter Forest - To be captured rarely only
Johann Elias Ridinger, Representations designed from Nature How all Big and Small Game, along with the Winged Game is trapped alive or dead in various manner with Reason Artifice and Force
Fishing & Angling
- In a fine contemporary calf binding by Hersant
P(etrus) Fisher, The Angler’s Souvenir with 31 engraved plates - Sailfish – Bayonet Fish – Istophorus Triactis
(= Istiophorus platyterus) - So strange :
William Hogarth, Shrimps! The crab-girl - Fishing & Angling in England :
William Barker Daniel, Rural Sports in a fine library copy - Angling is the family’s pleasure
for it keeps the paterfamilias’ good spirits
Franz Edmund Weirotter, At the Lake near Bolzano (Lake Bolsena)
Horses & Riding
- Jacob Duck, The Rider at the Pillar
- Johann Elias Ridinger, Redop left at the Wall
- Satin or silk white horse
Johann Elias Ridinger, Fully White Horse. Cheval Blanc. - Johann Elias Ridinger, Dapple Gray. Gris Pomelé.
- Ride with the great horses Rugendas –
Two most rare graphic pendants of the late period :
Georg Philipp Rugendas I, Assembling for the Ride
Cartography
- Carte des Gouvernements Flandre Françoise,
d’Artois, de Picardie et du Boulenois - Bacon’s Map of London and Stranger’s Guide (1868)
- England – Warwicum, Northhamtonia … etc.
- Vallée du Rhône / Provence :
Carte des Gouvernements de Dauphiné et de Provence
avec le Comitat Venaissin et la Princ. d’Orange - Italy – South Italy along with Sardinia, Sicily + Tunisia
Views & Local History
- Louis François Cassas, Mausolée d’Jamblichus (Apameia?)
- Peter Halm, View at Mayence
- The most beautiful medieval church of Liège :
Chapel in St. James’s Church at Liège - Johann Adolf Lasinsky, View of Oberlahnstein
- Ireland in Maps, Views, and Illustrations from the 16th-19th Centuries
Law / Proclamations
- 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 (1797) - The most shining side of customs :
Poster by Frederick VI, King of Denmark, Duke of Schleswig, Holstein etc.,
regarding several special tariffs because of suffered average or winter quarters (Dec. 22, 1830) - The Stage is the room of a Justice of the Peace :
William Hogarth, A Woman swearing her Child to a grave Citizen - License by Frederick VI, King of Denmark, Duke of Schleswig, Holstein etc.,
in regard of the examination for the Elbe skipper license (Sep. 9, 1823) - … a maybe strange cure :
Mandate (by Frederick Augustus of Saxony) Against the Running About of Dogs and Hydrophobia in General (1782)
Miscellanea
Books – Prints – Portraits
Books
- Banned in Prussia – one edition followed the other :
August Hermann Niemeyer, Textbook for the upper religion classes at scholar schools - Mann – Peter de Mendelssohn, Der Zauberer
- Christianus Reineccius, Janua Hebrææ linguæ veteris Testamenti & Grammatica Hebræo-Chaldaica
- Thomas Mann zum Gedenken
- Leo Lesquereux, Examinations about the Peatbogs in general
Prints
- Distinguished Indian Woman. XVth Century
- A. Smith, Examination of a Village School
- William Henry Pyne, Peer of the Realm
- The Sifting and Milling of the Rice
- Joanna, Grand Duchess of Florence
née archduchess of Austria
Portraits
- Gvilelmvs Avgvstvs, Regivs Princeps Britanniæ Dvx Cvmberlandiæ
- Benjamin Hoadly Lord Bishop of Winchester
- Joanna, Grand Duchess of Florence, née archduchess of Austria
- Henry Fox, Lord Holland
- Lvdovicvs XV. Galliarum et Navarræ Rex
Der hiesige Weihnachts-/Neujahrsgruß 2005 endete mit „In diesem Sinne recht schöne Weihnachtstage voll Harmonie und sammlungszugewandter Muße … “ , letzterer Wunsch in einer Grußerwiederung aufgegriffen wurde mit den Worten
„ das Gutwort des Jahres – sammlungszugewandte Muße – wunderbar, hab einigen LBA/Goethefreunden dieses Gutwort genannt. Sie haben in einer verwahrlosten Zeit ein ‚linguistisches Gespür’! “
(Herr R. K., 5. Januar 2006)