The Enclosed Valley, Hercules Segers, c. 1625 - c. 1630

Identification

Title(s)

The Enclosed Valley

Object type

print

Object number

RP-P-OB-814

Catalogue reference

Hollstein Dutch 13-3(4)q
Leeflang 13-2(4)n
Haverkamp-Begemann 13-3(4)q

Creation

Artist

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

Place

Amsterdam (possibly)

Dating

c. 1625 - c. 1630

Material and Technique

Physical features

line etching and drypoint, printed in blue on paper prepared with cream-coloured, lead-based ground, coloured with paint in transparent greyish-brown, transparent dark brown and somewhat opaque purplish-white; printed framing line in greenish-blue ink

Material

Technique

etching / drypoint / brush

Measurements

height c. 110 mm × width c. 183 mm (trimmed along plate mark, on left within the printed surface)

Subject

What

dale, valley

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. 1018, fl. 71, to the museum (L. 2166 and 2233), 1874

Bibliography and list of abbreviations for the provenance (pdf)

Documentation

Hercules Segers : painter, etcher, Hercules Seghers, Huigen Leeflang, Pieter Roelofs, p. 181, cat.nr. HB 13 II n
Hercules Segers : the complete etchings, Karel Gerard Boon, Egbert Haverkamp Begemann, Eduard Trautscholdt, p. 72, cat.nr. 13 IIIq
Grafiek van Hercules Seghers, Karel Gerard Boon, Jan Verbeek, p. 21, cat.nr. 22

Persistent URL

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