Lot 201
  • 201

Ridinger, Johann Elias

Estimate
1,000 - 2,000 GBP
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Description

  • Three albums containing 97 plates and 2 drawings, comprising:
  • Paper
i. [Portraits of Ridinger], 2 mezzotint plates (c.440 x 305mm.), one by Haid after Bergmüller, the other by J.J. Ridinger after J.E. Ridinger, [Schwerdt III:133; Thienemann p.xx, xxi]
ii. [Die vorstehenden Hunde], 4 engraved plates, [ZBI 3398; Schwerdt III:136; Th.101-104]
iii. [Die vier Jahreszeiten des Jaegers], 4 plates, [ZBI 3398; Schwerdt III:136 ("an attractive set"); Th. 109-112]
iv. [Die vier Tageszeiten der Hirsche], 4 plates, [Schwerdt III:138; Th. 238-241]
v. [Acht Blatt Loewen], 8 plates, [Schwerdt III:141; Th. 517-524]
vi. [Kämpfe reissender Thiere], 8 plates, [Schwerdt III:143; Th. 716-723]
vii. [Raubvögel und Euelen and Vier Blatt verschiedene Voegel mit allerlei biblischen Spruechen], 8 plates, [Schwerdt III:143; Th. 755-762]

and 2 other prints [Th. 273 and 284], together 40 plates bound in a folio album (500 x 335mm.), modern calf gilt



viii. [Portrait of Ridinger], one engraved plate by M.E. Ridinger, [Schwerdt III:132; Th. p.xix]
ix. [Grosser Herrn Lust in allerhand Jagen], 6 plates, [Schwerdt III:133; Th. 1, 3-4, 6-8], cut close or cropped, one browned, without 2 from the series
x. [DRAWINGS], study in pen and ink over black chalk, signed in black chalk "J.E. Ridinger fec.", another in black chalk [Th. 168 and 192]
xi. Neues Zeichnungs Buch, darin Wilde u[nd] Zahme Thiere, auch Feder Wild, vorgestellet u[nd] nach dem Leben gezeichnet. Augsburg, 1742, title and 15 plates, [ZBI 3410; Schwerdt III:143; Th. 737-752]
xii. [Pferdestudien], 6 plates, [not traced in Schwerdt; Th. 1346-1349 and 753-754]
xiii. [Vier Blatt Baere], 4 plates, [Schwerdt III:141; Th. 525-528]
xiv. [Ruhe der Jaeger und Jaegerinnen], 4 plates, [Schwerdt III:144; Th. 785-788]
xv. [Land- oder Bauernpferde in Gruppen], 6 plates, [Schwerdt III:142; Th. 599-604]
xvi. Unterschidliche Arten Hunden nach dem Leben, title and 6 plates, [Schwerdt III:141; Th. 551-557], 2 cut down



together 52 in one folio album (400 x 285mm.), modern half morocco



and one other album with 7 loose plates [Th. 99, 100, 188, 257, 263, 274, 352] and some modern reproductions, large folio (680 x 510mm.), modern half morocco

Condition

the condition of this lot is as described in the catalogue description
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