Rocky Landscape with a Gorge, First Version

Hercules Segers, c. 1625 - c. 1630

Fragments of a ship can be discerned in the sky above the landscape. Segers cut the large plate with the ship into pieces and used them for three etchings of mountain landscapes.

  • Artwork typeprint
  • Object numberRP-P-1951-528
  • Dimensionsheight 167 mm x width 153 mm (trimmed within the printed surface on left, right and top)
  • Physical characteristicsline etching, printed in blue on paper prepared with a pink, lead-based ground; counterproof of the same print on verso, printed in blue