Politicians may come or go –
Saxony will stand fast
Saxon from the 18th + 19th Century
Saxe, Cartes de la Haute, et de la Lusace. Upper Saxony and Lusatia. With title-cartouche and miles indicator. Map by Edme Mentelle (1730-1815), historiograph of the Comte de Artois, engraved by Pierre François Tardieu, Paris. (1788.) 35.6 x 47 cm.
Watermark. – Centred on Leipsic , Dresden finely in the right centre field . – Up to Goslar – Potsdam – Fürstenwalde – Sagan – Greiffenberg – Eger – Schweinfurt – Eschwege .
Offer no. 7,355 / EUR 138. (c. US$ 188.) + shipping
Dresden. Central view. Wood engraving after a photography. (1886.) 13.2 x 19.8 cm. – See the complete description.
Offer no. 15,530 / EUR 85. (c. US$ 116.) + shipping
GERMAN UNITY 141 YEARS AGO
Daumier, Honoré (Marseille 1808 – Valmondois 1879). L’Unité Allemande. The roller of Mars levels out the dead, as there are Württembergers, Badensers, Bavarians, Hannoverans, Saxons, Hesses. Lithograph. (1870-71.) Monogrammed, otherwise as above. 22.2 x 18.1 cm.
Delteil 3831, III (of 3) with ills. of this state. – Careful impression on better paper without the text on the back and the “Actualité” series title.
Worked in the great style of the final years, omitting all material and “accusing the wrong of the war in symbolic figures only” (Glaser). – See the complete description.
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Saxony – (Saxon States, Map of the Grand Ducal + Ducal.) With title & 2 explanation cartouches and small separate map of the western possession of Idar-Oberstein – Birkenfeld – Ottweiler. Detail map by Walther after Friedrich Wilhelm Streit (d. 1839) in steel engraving by A. Heimburger, coloured in outline. (1833-37.) 23.4 x 27.5 cm.
Rich local references including postal routes + stations, navigabilities, mountain passes, universities + high schools . – Up to Bleicherode – Halle – Penig – Plauen – Münchberg – Thurnau – Haßfurt – Hünfeld – Waldkappel . – Centred on Weimar – Rudolstadt .
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“(T)he Political , Economical and Cultural Life of
Europe and North America
(influenced by the Reformation).
IT IS SAXONY’S CONTRIBUTION
TO WORLD HISTORY .”
The Visitation of the Church in Saxony
as the Cause for Luther’s Large + Small Catechism
Ridinger, Johann Elias (Ulm 1698 – Augsburg 1767). Evangelische Kirchen Visitation. View through a curtain hold together at the top by rocaille title-cartouche with palm branches onto a meeting of the consistory with Luther and his sovereign at the center of the assembled secularity and clergy disputing and studying writings under the maxim John V, 39 “Look for in the Book” composed “stage-like in the sense of a closed scene” (Schöne). The inner circle at the table in the center, the outer in a wide semicircle. Between the upper windows of the otherwise covered walls paintings to I Sam. VII, 16 / II Kings 11, 1, 4 + 5 / Matt. IX, 35 / Acts VIII, 14 + Acts XV, 36. Etching by Johann Jacob Kleinschmidt (1687 Augsburg 1772). (1727.) Inscribed in the plate: Elias Riedinger (sic!) delin. / Ioh. Iacob Kleinschmidt Sculpsit, otherwise as above. 23.6 x 31.7 cm.
Provenance
Collection Alfred Coppenrath , Regensburg,
his sale part II (Leipsic 1889), no. 1606
and qualified there as
“ Extremely scarce broadsheet in undescribed state ”,
to the latter see, however, below.
Marsch, (Pictures to the Augsburg Confession and Its Anniversaries), Weißenhorn 1980. – Stillfried (1876) + Schwarz (1910) 1381; Reich auf Biehla 282 ( “Backed. / Interesting sheet … Extremely rare”, 1894 !); Boerner CXXII, 1385 (the copy of Conte Constanza C.....a, Milan, “Utmost scarce”, 1913) + Wend, Additions to the catalogues raissonée of prints, I, 1 (1975), Ridinger 43.
The picture worked within the scope of the “Augsburg Peace Paintings” (1650/51-1789) is meant for the 1728 annual gift. At which the typographic accompanying text “is only glued in many cases” (Gode Krämer; in this manner the copies Stillfried, Schwarz, Faber-Castell), and thus printed separately. The copy of the Augsburg Municipal Art Collections, however, is printed on the back of the etching as probable mark of origin from one of the rare Augsburg omnibus volumes of the set arranged chronologically, but more or less without constraint. So in the first instance by Baumgartner, then by Joh. Michael Roth (1732, a further one with 1749 foreword).
After ending of the Peace Paintings in 1789 Roth then presented the whole set in 1790 at which the pictures up to inclusive of 1731 – as then here, too – were printed onto the backside of the text of the year before. As well in its sequence as in its far more generous typography the 1727 text here diverges from the former Augsburg copy. Larger also the initial, the varying text arrangement besides more restrained ornamental border. From this edition then the copy here should be: the Ridinger/Kleinschmidt engraving to 1728 is found on the back of the text to the “Peace Painting” of 1727. What ever again leads to the wrong judgement as an undescribed proof impression.
Generally by the way not in Thienemann (1856), in Weigel’s Artstock Catalog, parts I-XXVIII (1838-1857), at the Ridinger tycoon Hamminger (1895), in Helbing’s (Ridinger) Catalog XXXIV (1900, 1554 items!) !
Watermark: crown over coat of arms. – In the upper left corner of the broad white margin repaired triangular tear of c. 1-1.5 cm, the upper margin with slim trace of dirt, absolutely smoothed centerfold not visible from the front, otherwise quite untouched. – On the back 2 columns of 50 lines of typographic text :
“ Friedens=Gemähld ,
Der Evangelischen Schul=Jugend in Augspurg, bey wiederholtem
Danck= und Frieden=Fest, den 8. Augusti Anno 1727. ausgetheilet.
Genommen aus der Heil. Schrifft und der Reformations=Historia.
Following an outline of the history of the reformation, its spreading over northern Europe and its victims.
Besides 79 years Peace of Westphalia the most eminent historical background of the remembrance by the Augsburg Celebration of Peace – and by this cause of the broadsheet – is the bicentennial of
“(the) famous Visitation of the Church in Saxony ,
by which the new Church became really visible ”
(Meyer’s Konv.-Lexikon, 4th ed., IX, 781 + X, 1023) by which all began in 1527 or even 1526 according to newer literature.
Stimulated by Luther and since October 1528 also directed by himself through this visitation
“ Saxony is the mother country of the Reformation .
It is SAXONY’S contribution to world history .
The confessional churches emerging from the reformation Lutherans, Reformed Church, Anglicans and the spiritualistic movements
influenced the political, economical and cultural life in
Europe and North America ”
(Christian Zühlke, Die Reformation in Sachsen, in Von der Liberey zur Bibliothek – 440 Jahre Sächsische Landesbibliothek, 1996, p. 123).
This then the setting of this in so many regards interesting and rare sheet, engraved instantaneously after Ridinger's drawn model.
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Welcome at the Famous Place of Tradition
Leipsic Fair – Invitation. Rose as opening motif set into fivefold golden line on black ground. Body color. At the reverse design pattern of a typographic invitation design in gold + black as well as rose vignette repeated twice with executed central text
“ Exhibition at the Leipsic Fair ”.
C. 1920. Inscribed in German as above. 142 x 90 mm.
Elegant illustration design on cardboard. – On the back lower right written reg. no. R. 473. – See the complete description.
Offer no. 28,911 / EUR 130. (c. US$ 177.) + shipping
From the Century when the Fair went on
(Leipsic, Woman from.) 1592. Coloured wood engraving heightened with gold. (1877-84.) 20.5 x 14 cm. – Lipperheide Ad 46. – Leaves for the Knowledge of Costumes NF. 201.
Traditional costume from the century when the fair went on. For the “Leipsic Fairs (developing from the early markets) … obtained only a larger importance when in 1507 Emperor Maximilian I vested the city with the right of staple and depot” (Meyer’s Convers.-Lex., 4th ed., Leipsic 1889, X, 665/I). And in 1711 Leipsic surpassed the older Imperial Fairs of Frankfort on the Main. – See the complete description.
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“ to prefer a cure perhaps strange to many
to the certain death of the patient ”
(Mandate of Frederick August Duke of Saxony Against the Running About of the Dogs and the Hydrophobia in General and What is to do against it. Along with the annexes “Cause of the Hydrophobia of the Dogs and the Symptoms of such Rabies” and “Instruction How one has to behave in Case of a Bite of Rabid Dogs and How one can take Precautions against the Sad After-Effects”). Published Dresden September 7, 1782. Ibid., Electoral Saxon Court-Printing, (1782). Fol. (34.8 x 21 cm). With two vignettes in woodcut. 12 ll. With the printed ducal signature along with the “L(oco) S(igilli)” mark and counter-signatures by George Wilhelm von Hopffgarten + the secretary Chr. Gottlieb Kretzschmar in the same way. Stitched.
File number “Nom: 13.” by old hand on title. – Especially the main part in beautiful, large typography. – Widemarged.
Extraordinarily rich decree
on combat + cure of hydrophobia .
Beginning with the reduction of the dogs in general, regular catching of dogs running about, and the general means of keeping and leading dogs. Further “all dogs have to be cut the so-called mad-worm without exception” by publicly appointed persons and in pharmacies, but also at other places, sufficient medicine “prepared from may-worms” has to be kept in stock.
But of quite outstanding interest the “detailed description” of the causes of the hydrophobia on two pages and, above all,
the directions for the therapy of a bitten man on 8 pages
with all details in respect of cleansing the wound, hygiene, rest, diet – elder-flower-tea – and animated care.
This richness of details makes the mandate to a really good source. Next to the so-called mad-worm that’s elimination – so with a Prussian decree of 1797 – was diagnosed as worthlessly later. And quite especially in comparison with the following 16-page mandate of 1796 (see following nos. 13,082 + 13,083) which attaches importance to the hygiene of animal + man generally as being absent still here. – See the complete description.
Offer no. 13,081 / EUR 496. / export price EUR 471. (c. US$ 642.) + shipping
One of Ridinger’s only two own Saxon motifs :
Dug out on the Completion of Hubertusburg Castle ,
etched
to the Salutation of the Conclusion of Peace there in 1763
Ridinger, Johann Elias (Ulm 1698 – Augsburg 1767). This very rare white badger which was speckled with yellow reddish and dark chestnut spots has been dug out and hunted in the park near St. Hubertusburg the 5th 9bris in the year of 1724. On a pass to the right, certain of its future, and basking in the sun. Behind it rocks and woods, in front wild herbs on low rocks. Etching + engraving by Martin Elias Ridinger (1731 Augsburg 1780). (1763.) Inscribed: Joh. El. Ridinger inv. del. et exc. Aug. Vind. / Mart. El. Ridinger sculpsit., otherwise in German as before. 35.4 x 26.3 cm.
Thienemann + Schwarz 316; Reich auf Biehla Collection 71. – Missing in the Silesian Ridinger collection at Boerner XXXIX (1885). – Sheet 74 of the only posthumously completed set of the Wondrous Stags and other Animals, together the first of these executed by son Martin Elias, who overcame his father’s weariness starting about 1756 by this. Therefore the caesura given for the work by the
Hubertusburg “Peace” Badger
is obvious. The following sheets, also etched by Martin Elias, concern events from 1763 and thus allow for the general chronological classification of the one here, too.
But analogously to the “greeting work” Th. 274 to the return to Munich of the Wittelsbach elector Charles Albert as Holy Roman Emperor Charles VII in 1744, historically secured by the dating (1744) and the textual actualizing (“Imperial” pleasure seat), and based on its proven anyway near chronological surrounding and thus besides its missing date, the work of the Hubertusburg badger here may be valued, too,
as being dedicated to the conclusion of peace there .
In local regard though the zoologically rare badger is together with the equestrian portrait of elector Friedrich August II as Polish king August III (Th. 830; “lived as enthusiastic hunter mostly in Hubertusburg Castle”, Meyers Konversations-Lexikon, 4th ed., vol. II, p. 96/I)
one of Ridinger’s only two own Saxon motifs .
Marvelous impression of rich contrasts and a warm tone on buff laid paper. On the back surrounding marginal tape from previous framing and a corresponding light streak on the front in the 2.8-5.1 cm wide white margin. Small backed tear lower left.
Offer no. 13,222 / EUR 654. / export price EUR 621. (c. US$ 846.) + shipping
(Mandate of Frederick August Duke of Saxony Regarding the Restriction of Dog-Ownership and the Precautions to arrange against the free running about of the dogs and for prevention of the danger to be afraid of rabid dogs. Along with the annexes “Causes of the Hydrophobia of the Dogs and the Symptoms of such Rabies” and “Instruction How one has to behave in Case of a Bite by Rabid Dogs and How one can take Precautions against the Sad After-Effects.) Published Dresden April 2, 1796. Ibid., Electoral Saxon Court-Printing, (1796). Fol. (34.8 x 22 cm). With large initial vignette in woodcut and a second one. 16 ll. With the printed ducal signature along with the “L(oco) S(igilli)” mark and counter signatures by Friedrich Adolph von Burgsdorff + the secretary Friedrich Moßdorf. Stitched. Uncut.
File number “Nom. 23” by old hand on title. – Last four ll. with small worm-gallery in the wide white upper margin. Final leaf with two brownspots. – Especially the main part in beautiful, large typography. – Wide-margined.
Extraordinarily rich decree
on combating + curing of hydrophobia
with direct reference to the previous mandate of September 7, 1782 (see above), “for the purpose was not achieved sufficiently … we have felt Ourselves … obliged … to issue another mandate and in that,
after the experiences made since the publishing of the mandate above ,
to collect all that what in respect of the subject has to be observed in future”.
Beginning with the reduction of the dogs generally and their keeping and leading the former liability to cut the so-called mad-worm
– as diagnosed as being worthless – is no longer mentioned here.
New in the decree, however,
– and that is the introduction of the precautionary quarantine –
“ for averting the most sad after-effects to be afraid of rabid dogs … each dog-owner … has to observe minutely his one and to lock it in at once if he feels symptoms – as described in annex I – how vague ever they may be. But if the surmise will be true the dog has to be killed immediately. ”
And thereupon complete hygiene follows on the quarantine :
“ A killed rabid dog … just as all other animals bitten or killed by a rabid dog has to be buried two yards under ground at least – so already per 1782 – and to be covered with lime. Also it is proceeded with caution that nothing is touched with one’s bare hands, but
with gloves or by help of wooden poles
which instruments are thrown along into the pit … and not in a river or run flowing by. ”
“ All garments, beds, resting-place, and other tools a sick person bitten by a rabid dog and really befallen by the rabies has used, likewise the articles of clothing a rabid dog may have touched when it attacked a person also if it did not bite really the latter have to be burned up or buried in the same way and with the same caution as above. ”
Of outstanding interest furthermore the 3½-page “detailed description by Our Board of Health” on the causes of the hydrophobia enriched by new aspects and enlarged almost twice the size compared with the former one and here, freed of some absurdities, especially the
6½-page instruction to treat to a bitten person
with all details to clean the wound, hygiene, rest, temperature, food – elder-bloom-tea – and animating care, but not without consultation of a physician or – at least – a qualified bather at the earliest. Compared to the edict of 1782 additionally also
the instruction to first self-help
as also the ligature of the affected parts of the body
“ by that the sucking in of the poison will be stopped ” .
But in such a way
a medical and hygiene-historic example of first rank .
See the complete description.
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The Hygiene is realized as Protection against Illness :
“ (Besides the dogs always have to be kept clean ;
therefore they have to be bathed, brushed or combed often ,
their kennels and throughs have to be cleaned) ”
(Directions to the Inhabitants of the Towns and the Country regarding the restriction of dog-ownership and the prevention of the danger to be afraid of rabid dogs. Repeating the mandate of April 2, 1796, along with the accompanying annexes “Causes of the Hydrophobia of the Dogs and the Symptoms of such Rabies” and “Instruction How one has to behave in Case of a Bite of Rabid Dogs and How one can take Precaution against the Sad After-Effects.) (Dresden) 1797. Sm. 4to (20.5 x 17 cm). 24 pp. Stitched.
File number ”Nom: 24“ by old hand on title. The latter browned, a little dirty and with a small inconspicuous worm-gallery quite minimally touching also the following leaf.
The billboard version
of the extraordinarily content-rich edict
on combating and curing the hydrophobia ,
recapitulating the regulations of the mandate of April 2, 1796 which actualized that of September 7, 1782 in partially changed order
in sentences as short as pregnant .
Of outstanding interest not least the
10-page instruction on the treatment of a bitten person .
Compared to the edict of 1782 additionally also the instruction to first self-help as in 13,082, too.
But in such a way not just showing exemplary the transfer of chancellery’s law into everyday life, but a medical- and hygiene-historic example of first rank. And here additionally attractive as the
string-version to hang out .
See the complete description.
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Meissen – Mannfeld, Bernhard (Dresden 1848 – Frankfort/Main 1925). Meissen. Central view from above on town, Church of Our Lady, cathedral, and Albrechtsburg. In front large, on the streets small figures. Etching printed in brown. C. 1875. Inscribed: Orig.-Rad. v. B. Mannfeld. / Druck v. O. Felsing. Berlin., otherwise as above. 24.3 x 18.2 cm.
View from the years of the restauration of the Albrechtsburg (1873-83). The two towers of the cathedral only added 1902-08 however. – With addresses of printer and publisher O. Felsing and Alexander Duncker, both Berlin, resp. – From a set of 1889. – The wide white margin of the light cardboard here and there most minimally foxing. – See the complete description.
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Dedicated to
Christian Ludwig von Hagedorn
(Hamburg 1712 – Dresden 1780)
Saxon Legation Councillor
+
Director General of the Dresden Academies + Galeries
Ridinger, Johann Elias (Ulm 1698 – Augsburg 1767). The Deer’s Four Times of Day. Set of 4 sheet in etching & engraving. C. 1746. Inscribed: J. E. Ridinger Pictor ac Sculptor Augustan. (1) and J. E. Ridinger fec. (2-4) resp., otherwise as following, with the respective motto each above of the oval picture the corners of which are hatched out. 34.3-34.6 x 27.7-28.2 cm.
Thienemann 238 inscribed with ”J. E. Ridinger Pictor ac sculptor Agustan.“ below of the dedication to the Saxon (Secret) Legation Councillor of the king of Poland and later director general of the Dresden Academies and Galeries, the brother of the poet,
CHRISTIANO LUDOVICO AB HAGEDORN
Pontiff Poloniar. Regis a Consiliis Legationum,
Viro et avitae Nobilitatis Splendore
et artis graphicæ usu, cultu, amore inter graviora negotia Spectabili
D. D. D.,
and Th. 239-241, with ”J. E. Ridinger fec.“ resp. Additionally above of the oval image whose corners are hatched out:
Morning – Lucem revehit tenebris Aurora fugatis
In a rocky landscape a troop welcoming the new day.
Noon – Sol mediam coeli terit arduus arcem
A troop of three by a strong tree in a forest.
Evening – Ast(e)rifero procedit Vesper olympo
Father, mother and son under the starry sky.
Midnight – Jam medio volvuntur Sidera lapsu
Rutting season at moonlight.
The marvelous , warm-toned rich in contrast copy of an old omnibus volume of a nobleman and by this
preserved best through the centuries
with watermark WANGEN as the quality particularly esteemed by the Ridingers. Margins above & below 5-6.8, laterally 1.9-3.2 cm wide, at the left the old stitching edge. The Evening sheet with pinhead-small abrasion in the rock part above the group of three, otherwise prime. – See the complete description.
Offer no. 15,701 / price on application
Meissen with the Albrechtsburg. Vista from the opposite bank with the bridge. Wood engraving at Carl Angerer (1838-1916), Vienna. (1886.) Inscribed: CA (ligated) ph., otherwise in German as above. 8.9 x 11.9 cm. – Continuous text on both sides on Dresden and environs. – See the complete description.
Offer no. 9,431 / EUR 25. (c. US$ 34.) + shipping
Electoral Saxon Fountain Specialist-General
&
Marketing Expert 280 years ago:
FRIEND OF AUGUST THE STRONG
Kyaw – (The World-Famous Königstein Fountain’s Address out of His Depth to Those looking at him from above.) 24 lines. C. between 1715 and 1733. Sm. folio. 1 sheet.
Surrounded by a wide setting the quite whimsical poem (broadsheet?) tells the fountain’s story and sings the praise of the beneficialness of its water:
“ … am I now savoury, fresh, and pure / Even better against the thirst than Alicantian wine … / Regale yourself with me, you, my esteemed guests / And don’t be frightened there above since I stand fast below. ”
The dating of this
quite unique early advertising message
is given by the mention of both Elector August the Strong of Saxony and Friedrich Wilhelm of Kyaw (also Kyau) who was especially responsible for the development of the fountain. As an electoral Saxon major-general in 1715 he became commander of the Königstein where he died in 1733 as lieutenant-general. The very same year as the Elector, a friend to him, and still living when the poem was published since
“ The cup which, as a remembrance, stands here / Elector August himself has turned with his hands / Thus pour out to the health of Him who still protects me … ”
The origin by the earthy Kyaw should be revealed as well by the quotation of August who was fond of him as of his own close connection to the fountain “where he created much still being” (Mr. Poten in Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie) that is to be found in the poem itself:
“ The Baron of Kyaw has done my fountain-house / For that neither ice nor snow nor rain touch me. / What for forty years people turned on my base / That my general completed in one year / Hence I am now savoury … ”
Besides not bothering foldings evenly quite lightly browned with only single additionally negligible spots of foxing and age. Otherwise wide-margined, with deep typography and large watermark.
For Saxon local as well as German cultural history
just as for the friend of savourable water
a singular collection jewel .
See the complete description.
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Witzel, K. (Ed.). (Practical Forestry Guide for Timber Buyers, Timber Industrialists, and Forest Officers. Conditions of felling, stand, wood quality, roads, workers, transportation, lodgings, telephone, postal, and railway connections of the forest offices and districts. From informations by the public head foresters.) 2 vols. Berlin, Parey, 1926. VIII, 432 pp. incl. 4 pp. ads.; X, 496 pp. incl. 6 pp. ads. Orig. cloth with stamped back and front board.
Mantel I, 56 – In German. – Richly commented guide to the east and northern German forests: I: East Prussia / Border March / Brandenburg; II: Pomerania / Silesia / Saxony + Thuringia / Schleswig-Holstein / Hannover. – Several stamps and inventory numbers on inner boards, titles, and inside on the lower margin (2 and 6 resp.). – Withdrawn copy of the forestry academy Eberswalde.
Offer no. 12,221 / EUR 151. (c. US$ 206.) + shipping
“ Excellent and the Best by this Master
here ” in Dresden
( J. W. v. Goethe )
Ruisdael, Jacob van (Haarlem 1629 – Amsterdam 1682). The Stag Hunt. Light woodlandscape with vast marsh through which the par force hunt goes. Animal and figure accessories by Adriaen van de Velde (1636 Amsterdam 1672). Etching in outline washed with sepia by Adrian Zingg (St. Gallen 1734 – Leipsic 1816). Sheet size 43.3 x 57.5 cm.
Nagler, Zingg, 4, II (of II) and, Ruysdael, XIV, p. 101; Slive, Jacob van Ruisdael, 1982, per 37 (ills.), erroneously as in reverse. – Cf. as compositionally near Ruisdael’s two woodlandscapes with marsh/pool Slive 36 with fig. 51 which in their turn quote Roelant Savery (1576-1639) (ibid. fig. 52; Savery catalogue Cologne/Utrecht, 1985/86, 120). Ruisdael as Savery stood sponsor to Ridinger’s Thienemann 282, but 171, too.
Ruisdael’s infinitely famous
Dresden Hunt
counted by Wurzbach (1906/11) among the “most important and most beautiful (of his paintings) that exist” and recorded as the first of the twelve there. As he classifies him practically in unison with predecessors and successors, too, as
“ undisputedly the most important landscape painter
arthistory knows . ”
And especially in regard of the forest motifs he thinks of the environments of Cleve he might have rambled through. And Slive pp. 70 f.:
“ Goethe made no remarks about the Dresden ‘Cemetery’ in the catalogue he annotated during the course of his visit to the Dresden Gallery in 1790 … He did, however, make notes about six other Ruisdaels in the collection.
The one which made the strongest impression
was the artist’s ‘Stag Hunt’ …
‘Excellent and the best by this master here’ …
(but) the painting was not cited in his essay on ‘Ruisdael as Poet’ published sixteen years later. The changes in Goethe’s taste for Ruisdael’s work cannot detain us here, but it is worth mentioning that his deep admiration for the artist was a lifelong one, and he collected works by and after the artist. ”
Zingg’s Ruisdael reproduction here in literature the one which. The swamp enlarged compared with the original. With wonderful deepness of the picture
the original washing
in its light brown is of great charm
(“He educated a lot of pupils here who generally had to help his own commercial purposes, and established a lively trade with washed sepia drawings and outline etchings”, Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie XLV, 323). Nevertheless his prints are rare as he “was thrifty with the impressions as he wanted to secure the proceeds for his later years in case of being out of work or becoming weak. Only in 1804 … Tauchnitz induced him to publish his works. They (so then possibly the stag hunt, too) appeared in 4 numbers … before the letter, and … with these … For long he was considered as the greatest landscape draughtsman of newer time, and also his landscape studies were praised as model. In the course of the years he was surpassed by other artists though, and especially obscured by (William) Woollett (1735-1785)” (Nagler).
His development in namely the coloristic landscape subject Zingg owes to Aberli in Bern who mediated him to Wille in Paris where he stayed for seven years and now learned engraving after paintings, too. In 1766 Christian Ludwig von Hagedorn, receiver of Ridinger’s one and only own etched dedication per “The Deer’s Four Times of Day” let him be appointed professor for engraving at Dresden where he stayed for the rest of his life.
As the copies published in colours were often trimmed to the image border under loss of the inscription for getting as close to the original as possible so the one here, too. Margins backed of old on the back by surrounding wide strip of rough paper. Both the upper corners stained slightly anoyingly, but in the tone of the wash. On the left reaching something more into the sky as the closed trace of an 8 cm tear, too. Marginally only, however, the surrounding brown margin resulting from a covering mounting board. The rubbing in the left lower corner overlookable as the light teasing in the right one. Small tear of 1.5 cm in the lower margin as a fine trace of a tear in the outer field of the middle sky part, too. All in all nevertheless still fine, worth viewing and framing.
Résumé :
Zingg’s adequate large leaf
in original wash .
After one of the most celebrated Ruisdaels in Dresden .
See the complete description.
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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)

