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Lot 188
  • 188

Johann Elias Ridinger

Estimate
1,500 - 2,000 GBP
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Description

  • Johann Elias Ridinger
  • A deer standing in a stream
  • Black chalk heightened with white, within black chalk framing lines;
    signed and dated in pen and brown ink, lower right:  Joh. Elias Ridinger. del 1740. d: 16. 9br and extensively inscribed in pen and brown ink, lower centre

Provenance

Johan Conrad Spengler (L.1434);
Adalbert von Lanna (L.2773)

Catalogue Note

The inscription describes how the stag was shot on 15th September 1739 by his Excellency Herr Frantz Lactantus, Freiherr von Firmian.  The drawing relates to the print recorded in Thienemann, no. 257, p. 65.