Distant View with a Road and Mossy Branches, Hercules Segers, c. 1622 - c. 1625
counterproof of line etching, in black on cotton prepared with yellowish-brown, lead-based ground, coloured with greyish-green paint, light yellow oil paint, and semi-transparent white paint, h c.146mm × w c.196mm Catalogue entry
The colouration of this counterproof on cotton probably remained unfinished. At the bottom the print is priced at 3 stivers (1 stiver was a small Dutch coin equal to one twentieth of a guilder) in 17th-century handwriting.
