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Mountain Valley, at the Right a Man Carrying a Stick
Hercules Segers, c. 1625 - c. 1630
The areas of shadow in drypoint in the first state (Hermitage, Saint Petersburg, 245679) were worn and replaced with stipples. They were pricked directly in the plate with a punch (a steel tool).
- Artwork typeprint
- Object numberRP-P-OB-820
- Dimensionsheight 143 mm x width 199 mm (trimmed outside the plate mark)
- Physical characteristicsline etching and drypoint, etched framing line at top and bottom, printed in green on paper prepared with a yellow, lead-based ground, painted over with a thin transparent greyish-green paint; printed framing line