Landscape with a Steep Cliff, Small Version, Hercules Segers, c. 1622 - c. 1625

Title(s)

Landscape with a Steep Cliff, Small Version
Landscape with a Steep Cliff and a Stream: Small Version

Object type

• print

Object number

RP-P-1910-2012

Catalogue reference

• Hollstein Dutch 23-2(2)d
• Leeflang 23-2(2)d
• Haverkamp-Begemann 23-2(2)d

Artist

• print maker: Hercules Segers
• after own design by: Hercules Segers

Place

Amsterdam (possibly)

Dating

c. 1622 - c. 1625

Physical features

lift-ground etching, line-etching, printed in black on paper prepared with a bluish-grey, lead-based ground; framing line in grey ink

Material

• paper

Technique

etching / lift-ground etching

Measurements

height c. 95 mm × width c. 138 mm (trimmed within the printed surface, except on left and at top)

What

• mountains
• rocks

Credit line

• Purchased with the support of the Vereniging Rembrandt

Acquisition

purchase 1910

Copyright

Public domain

Provenance

• Hercules Segers : painter, etcher, Hercules Seghers, Huigen Leeflang, Pieter Roelofs, p. 193, cat.nr. HB 23 II d
• Hercules Segers : the complete etchings, Karel Gerard Boon, Egbert Haverkamp Begemann, Eduard Trautscholdt, p. 79, cat.nr. 23 IId
• Grafiek van Hercules Seghers, Karel Gerard Boon, Jan Verbeek, p. 20, cat.nr. 12