RIDINGER Johann Elias (1698-1767) - [Adam and Eve]. c.1730-1 - Lot 316

RIDINGER Johann Elias (1698-1767) - [Adam and Eve]. c.1730-1760. Incomplete suite of 6 (of 12) etching and burin plates. Ref: Thienemann, n°181. From the series "Das Paradies oder die Schöpfung und der Sündenfall des ersten Menschenpaares" (Paradise or The Creation and Fall of the First Human Couple). Published in Augsburg by the artist. Each subject approx. 35,5 x 52 cm. Between 40 x 55 & 47 x 60 cm each sheet. 50 x 65 cm each mount. Condition A/B (3 plates formerly glued on a rigid support and the other 3 mounted by the corners or edges; margins or small margins, some foxing mainly in the dusty margins, a vertical printing fold for one of them, some stains...) Set. 6 pl.