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Rocky Landscape with a Road and a River
Hercules Segers, c. 1622 - c. 1625
Segers first applied a network of intersecting lines. He covered the areas that had to remain white with so-called ‘stopping-out varnish’. Segers simply left the coarse crosshatching and the foul bitten spots in the sky because they would be covered when he overpainted the impression.
- Artwork typeprint
- Object numberRP-P-H-OB-833
- Dimensionsheight 163 mm x width 246 mm (heavily trimmed on all sides, especially on right and at bottom where large parts of the image are missing)
- Physical characteristicsline etching with tone and highlights created by crosshatching and stopping-out, ectching trials, spots caused by foul biting in etching ground, printed in black on paper