The Two Trees (An Alder and an Ash), Hercules Segers, c. 1625 - c. 1630

Title(s)

The Two Trees (An Alder and an Ash)

Object type

• print

Object number

RP-P-H-OB-848

Catalogue reference

• Hollstein Dutch 33
• Leeflang 33
• Haverkamp-Begemann 33

Description

Twee bomen tegen een blauw en roze achtergrond.

Artist

• print maker: Hercules Segers
• after own design by: Hercules Segers

Place

Amsterdam (possibly)

Dating

c. 1625 - c. 1630

Physical features

lift-ground etching, printed in green (azurite and precipitated yellow lake) on paper prepared with a light pink, lead-based ground, coloured with semi-transparent, light blue paint

Material

• paper

Technique

lift-ground etching

Measurements

height c. 152 mm × width c. 173 mm (trimmed within the printed surface, except at top; especially on left where strip several centimetres wide seems to be missing)

What

• trees

Credit line

• On loan from the City of Amsterdam

Acquisition

loan 1885

Copyright

Public domain

Provenance

• Hercules Segers : painter, etcher, Hercules Seghers, Huigen Leeflang, Pieter Roelofs, p. 214, cat.nr. HB 33
• The glory of the Golden Age : Dutch art in the 17th century : drawings and prints, cat.nr. 43
• Hercules Segers : the complete etchings, Karel Gerard Boon, Egbert Haverkamp Begemann, Eduard Trautscholdt, p. 85, cat.nr. 33
• Grafiek van Hercules Seghers, Karel Gerard Boon, Jan Verbeek, p. 24, cat.nr. 57