Distant View with a Road and Mossy Branches, Hercules Segers, c. 1622 - c. 1625

Identification

Title(s)

Distant View with a Road and Mossy Branches

Object type

print

Object number

RP-P-OB-809

Catalogue reference

Hollstein Dutch 27-1(3)b
Leeflang 27-1(3)b
Haverkamp-Begemann 27-1(3)b

Description

Uitgestrekt fantasielandschap met rechts heuvels en op de voorgrond een sparretak.

Creation

Artist

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

Place

Amsterdam (possibly)

Dating

c. 1622 - c. 1625

Material and Technique

Physical features

line etching, maculature with oil (that has turned brown) and remains of ink on cream-coloured paper, printing folds top left

Material

paper

Technique

etching

Measurements

height c. 113 mm × width c. 182 mm (trimmed within the printed surface)

Subject

What

Acquisition and rights

Acquisition

purchase 9-Apr-1874

Copyright

Public domain

Provenance

...; sale, Carel Coenraad Johannes de Ridder (1818-1871, Rotterdam and Utrecht); Rotterdam (D.A. Lamme), 9 April 1874 sqq., no. 1016, fl. 80, to the museum (L. 2165)

Bibliography and list of abbreviations for the provenance (pdf)

Documentation

Hercules Segers : painter, etcher, Hercules Seghers, Huigen Leeflang, Pieter Roelofs, p. 199, cat.nr. HB 27 I b
Hercules Segers : the complete etchings, Karel Gerard Boon, Egbert Haverkamp Begemann, Eduard Trautscholdt, p. 81, cat.nr. 27 Ib
Grafiek van Hercules Seghers, Karel Gerard Boon, Jan Verbeek, p. 20, cat.nr. 16

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