Landscape with a Steep Cliff, Small Version

Hercules Segers, c. 1622 - c. 1625

For this impression the plate was reworked, but then in the usual etching technique. By means of scratchy line patterns, Segers lent the rocks their characteristic structure.

  • Artwork typeprint
  • Object numberRP-P-1910-2012
  • Dimensionsheight 95 mm x width 138 mm (trimmed within the printed surface, except on left and at top)
  • Physical characteristicslift-ground etching, line-etching, printed in black on paper prepared with a bluish-grey, lead-based ground; framing line in grey ink