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Mountain Valley with the Remains of a Ship
Hercules Segers, c. 1623 - c. 1625
For this landscape Segers used a piece of a larger etching plate with a depiction of a ship. The upsidedown top of a mast can be discerned at the upper right.
- Artwork typeprint
- Object numberRP-P-H-OB-819
- Dimensionsheight 138 mm x width 202 mm (trimmed within the plate mark, but outside the printed surface, except on right)
- Physical characteristicsline etching and drypoint, printed in black on paper, then coloured using lead-based, greyish-blue paint and yellow, purple and white paint, printed framing line at left, top and bottom; varnished