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View of Wageningen
Hercules Segers, c. 1628 - c. 1630
The print shows Wageningen in reverse and so it was probably made after the painting (National Galleries of Scotland, NG2800). At the left Segers added mountains that do not in fact exist.
- Artwork typeprint
- Object numberRP-P-OB-846
- Dimensionsheight 84 mm x width 296 mm (trimmed within the printed surface, except at top)
- Physical characteristicsline etching and drypoint, printed in dark green on paper prepared with a light green, lead-based ground, coloured with paint in semi-transparent, glossy red, semi-transparent blue, transparent dark green, semi-transparent greyish-brown, opaque purple and opaque blue; framing line in brown ink