4683 - 5058: [Horses and horsemanship]. Ridinger, Martin Elias (1731-1781).

84 4840 Horses and horsemanship Ridinger Martin Elias 1731 1781

84/4840 [Horses and horsemanship]. Ridinger, Martin Elias (1731-1781). Türkischer Pferdeaufputz. Series of 4 engravings after Johann Elias RIDINGER, each 24,5x33,2 cm., each w. engr. captions in German and French and numb. "I-IV" in upper right margin, w. original accomp. letterpress broadside, publ. by J.E. Ridinger, Augsb., 1752.

- Wide margins, cut unevenly.

= Very rare series. Not in Menessier de la Lange. The letterpress leaf is an account and a description of the textiles and other embellishments of the horses of the Turkish sultan and a pasha by Freiherr Philipp Franz von Gudenus (1710-1783, draughtsman and soldier, famous for his Constantinople panorama), made in Constantinople in 1741. According to the text, Gudenus sent Ridinger this description and the drawings after which Ridinger designed these plates. Plates: "Türkisch keijserliches Hand Pferd", "Divani von der lincken Seite", "Divani von der rechten seite anzusehen" and "Handpferd eines Pascha". SEE ILLUSTRATION PLATE LXXXVIII.

€ (1.000-1.500)