From  the  Greatest  of  the  Augsburg  Schools

Rugendas I, Georg Philipp (1666 Augsburg 1742). Leads the horseman right … . Open riding place on the back of the stables with manifold actions. Mezzotint. Inscribed: Georg Philipp Rugendas invent. del. fec. et excudit, otherwise as before and below. 48.5 x 65.5 cm.

Teuscher 68 + ills. (by printer’s error 40.5 cm, without number); Stillfried 347. – Plate 1 of the 8-sheet riding school T. 68-75 + Nagler 44, here in a supposedly later state  with  the number 1 in small half circle at the lower picture edge, as the copy of the Swiss Institute of Technology Zurich, too. – Watermark Great Crown with typographic pendant and WANGEN word mark. – With subtext in German:

With surrounding margins of 1-1.7 cm. – Harmonious impression with fine chiaroscuro though from the overall somewhat used plate as quite acceptable for mezzotints allowing  – so the contemporary expert Sandrart – just about 50-60 really good impressions. – Box pleat from print reaching diagonally 9 cm into the sky part. Pinhead-small hole above the tail of the horse on the outer left. Slight creases recognizable on the back.

Extremely  rare, the leaves of this set are missing, i. a., within the c. 27,600 lots of Weigel’s Art Stock Catalogue, parts I-XXVIII, 1838-1857, the Bibliotheca Hippologica I. H. Anderhub with rarities like Ridinger’s Riding School in imperial oblong dissolved in 1963, and the Sarasin Collection (1999). The copy here

Who conceded the wonderful leaves of this set with their marvellous horses the place which already a hundred years ago Wilhelm Schmidt summing up in the Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie assigned to Rugendas:

“ Doubtless, set into better circumstances, e. g. living in the Netherlands about 1650, he would have become an artist who

would  have  surpassed  all  his  horse  and  battle  competitors . ”

Offer no. 28,160 / EUR  1380. / Export price EUR  1311. (c. US$ 2073.) + shipping

Also see plate 2 of this set
and plates 5, 7 + 8 of the dressages Teuscher 118-129.

„ vielen Dank für die schnelle Zusendung des Buches ‚Der Ahorn‘. Ich freue mich insbesondere, weil dieses Buch mein Opa geschrieben hat und es somit für mich eine große Bedeutung hat. Viele Grüße aus Berlin “

(Frau U. C., 7. Juni 2004)