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Mountain Valley with Fenced Fields
Hercules Segers, c. 1625 - c. 1630
Segers printed this nocturnal scene with a generous amount of plate tone: he did not wipe all of the ink from the etching plate. Next he overpainted the impression with blue watercolour. The valley seems bathed in the light of an invisible moon.
- Artwork typeprint
- Object numberRP-P-OB-841
- Dimensionsheight 250 mm x width 401 mm (trimmed within the plate mark, approx. 25 mm in total from top and bottom and 100 mm in total from left and right)
- Physical characteristicsline etching and drypoint, an etched horizontal framing line in margin at bottom, printed in blue on paper, with a great deal of plate tone, sky painted with brushstrokes of transparent blue paint