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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