Rocky Landscape with a Man Walking to the Right, First Version, Hercules Segers, c. 1625 - c. 1630
line etching and drypoint, printed in blue on paper prepared with pink, lead-based ground, plate tone in sky at top, coloured with transparent greenish-brown paint, fragments of printed framing line, h c.161mm × w c.217mm Catalogue entry
Segers applied greenish brown paint with swift strokes of the brush. Presumably this was the first layer of colour, and he would subsequently paint the sky and other passages, like he did in the adjacent impression (RP-P-OB-822).
