Defregger, Franz (1835 at the Ederhof near Stronach, municipality of Iselsberg-Stronach, East Tyrol - 1921 in Munich): "The last bid" original etching ca.41x55.5cm (representation/image size) on cardboard (47.5x58.5cm) by A. Wagenmann after Defregger; signed and dated "1874" in the plate, typographically inscribed and titled below the depiction; Franz Felsing Munich 1888

The well-known and rare sheet not fresh and browned. Center left with a 2cm large backed tear (see illustrations), but still worthy of framing and collecting. The condition was taken into account in the price.

"There they come, galloping, the old rascals and rascals with crooked backs, knees and elbows, with white strands of hair and stubbly beards, on their armpits pikes and scythes and morning stars and stable forks and hoes, also serrated knives and rusty ones lances and rifles. All in mousy, worn leather trousers, old jackets and broad felt hats. The proud farmer marches ahead, carrying the burning log upside down on his shoulder and wheezing on the way with the instructions - where and how to tackle, to his right trotts the zimmermann with an iron-toothed, steel-tipped club, which is said to have smashed down on the Turks' skulls a long time ago. Next to him is the judge from Villanders, for whom the law has become a knife these days. To the left of the farmer is the white-bearded field chaplain Gruber, carrying a massive loaf of bread and a rosary in his mighty jerkin's sack. And behind everyone else, foresters and mountaineers, shepherds and woodcutters, craftsmen, farmhands and farmers, igniters and miners. Even the old bird dealer from Kollman and a Herrgöttler from Barbian join the Villandro storm heaps; now the people don't need canaries, now the bullets are whistling, and no Christles, now the Tyroleans are bleeding. Strike it now. In somber seriousness they follow their sons and grandsons, who have twice liberated the Tyrolean countryside, but who threaten to succumb to the superiority and cunning of the enemy for the third time." [Schützenkompanie Anton von Gasteiger Villanders]