“for the particular pleasure they are also hunted with hounds”
How the Roes are hunted with Hounds

“belongs to the finest engravings of German rococo”
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

The Stag caught in the Turn-iron

When European Values still were worth an Educational Trip
The Vengeance of a Lowly on a Mighty is pernicious

With a provenance story as beautiful as rare
close to the immortal Beethoven :
IOH. ELIAS RIDINGER Pictor et Scalptor Augustanus

The Stags from Lake Walenstadt in Switzerland :
The Pursued Stags

For Helbing 1900 the second most valuable sheet of the set
In the Lake Ammergau in Bavaria,
so a huntsman told me likewise, that as he aimed at a wild (whooper?) swan …
also an especially big (white-tailed) eagle flew so to speak into the shot

Dramatic par force transformed into breath-catching art assoluta
In 1731. have drawn this Image (of 2 Stags) in the Park of Nymphenburg towards Starnberg (near Munich) from Nature.
The original printing plate for Th. 287

“There is no peace in life” :
Wild Ducks stalked by Wildcats and Foxes

On the islands of love :
The Cythera Lady (“Impudent but yet Gallant”)