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The Enclosed Valley
Hercules Segers, c. 1625 - c. 1630
The earliest impressions of this etching are on linen. By painting the foreground with brown paint and the background with grey or blue, Segers subsequently added a subtle colour perspective.
- Artwork typeprint
- Object numberRP-P-1961-869
- Dimensionsheight 108 mm x width 194 mm (trimmed within the plate mark and within the printed surface on right and bottom)
- Physical characteristicsline etching, printed in black on linen prepared with a grey, lead-based ground, coloured with paint in transparent light brown, a more opaque dark grey and transparent light grey