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Ridinger, Johann Elias, and others
Estimate
1,500 - 2,500 GBP
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Description
- A collection of approximately 21 drawings and watercolours (on 13 sheets) and 59 engravings of hunting in an album, paginated 1-65 in pencil, including:
- Printed paper
DRAWINGS: p.1 pencil, ink and wash hunting scene, signed Jacoby, 1759 (title for Parc d'Eisenstatt); p.5 ink hunting scene, c.1700; p.6 pencil and wash greyhound, signed P.v. Laer; p.7 three ink and wash scenes (horses, hunter, hare) on one sheet (patterns for metalwork); p.8-9 eight watercolour deer and shooting scenes on 2 sheets; p.10 cut out ink and wash design for a gun wheellock with hunting scene; p.22 ink and wash scene of a bear at bay after Jost Amman; p.31 gouache on parchment by C. Dietsch of a boar in landscape; p.32 cut out pencil and wash on parchment, a scene of hunter and dog (decoration for a snuff or pill box); p.33 pen and ink wash of trapping birds; p.34 Persian watercolour of hunting deer with a lion; p.47 ink and wash of a stag set upon by hounds by J.G. Wintter
RIDINGER ENGRAVINGS: Neues Thier Reis-Büchl. Erster Theil, allerley Art Hunde vorstellend. Augsburg, 1728, title and 11 plates, [ZBI 3409; Th. 725-736]
OTHER ENGRAVINGS: two woodcuts from Theuerdank (p.2-3), engraved hunting scene by Hirschvogel (p.4), four engraved hunting scenes after Blochem (p.14-17), six engraved hunting scenes by Aubry after Merian (p.25-30), 12 engraved hunting scenes by C. Savary and B. Gaultier (p.35-46), and others
all mounted in a folio volume (325 x 225mm.), eighteenth-century red morocco gilt (a reimboitage), modern label on spine "Ridinger Hunde", slipcase, binding somewhat rubbed and soiled
RIDINGER ENGRAVINGS: Neues Thier Reis-Büchl. Erster Theil, allerley Art Hunde vorstellend. Augsburg, 1728, title and 11 plates, [ZBI 3409; Th. 725-736]
OTHER ENGRAVINGS: two woodcuts from Theuerdank (p.2-3), engraved hunting scene by Hirschvogel (p.4), four engraved hunting scenes after Blochem (p.14-17), six engraved hunting scenes by Aubry after Merian (p.25-30), 12 engraved hunting scenes by C. Savary and B. Gaultier (p.35-46), and others
all mounted in a folio volume (325 x 225mm.), eighteenth-century red morocco gilt (a reimboitage), modern label on spine "Ridinger Hunde", slipcase, binding somewhat rubbed and soiled
Provenance
William A. Baillie-Grohman (1851-1921), collector's stamp (Lugt 370) on some prints
Condition
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