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A Rearing Horse before a Landscape
Hercules Segers, c. 1618 - c. 1622
A fierce rearing horse towers above a tiny strip of landscape. Segers based this depiction of an animal – the only one he made! – on a print after a design by the Italian artist Antonio Tempesta.
- Artwork typeprint
- Object numberRP-P-H-OB-865
- Dimensionsheight 104 mm x width 76 mm (trimmed within the printed surface, with loss of part of the image on the right only)
- Physical characteristicsline etching, possibly a counterproof, printed in black on linen prepared with a grey, lead-based ground, fragments of printed framing line on left, top and bottom, small etched circles at top left and center, possibly remnants from rejected image