Rocky Landscape with a Gorge, First Version, Hercules Segers, c. 1625 - c. 1630

Identification

Title(s)

Rocky Landscape with a Gorge, First Version
Rocky Landscape with a Road Bordering a Gorge: First Version

Object type

print

Object number

RP-P-1951-528

Catalogue reference

Hollstein Dutch 17-2(2)b
Leeflang 17-2(2)b
Haverkamp-Begemann 17-2(2)B

Description

Het rotslandschap is geëtst op een fragment van een oorspronkelijk veel grotere etsplaat, waarop een schip was voorgesteld. De tuigage van dit schip is vooral in de lucht en rechts in het landschap nog zichtbaar.

Creation

Artist

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

Place

Amsterdam (possibly)

Dating

c. 1625 - c. 1630

Material and Technique

Physical features

line etching, printed in blue on paper prepared with a pink, lead-based ground; counterproof of the same print on verso, printed in blue

Material

paper

Technique

etching / drypoint

Measurements

height c. 167 mm × width c. 153 mm (trimmed within the printed surface on left, right and top)

Subject

What

Acquisition and rights

Credit line

Purchased with the support of the Vereniging Rembrandt, the Stichting tot Bevordering van de Belangen van het Rijksmuseum and I. de Bruijn

Acquisition

purchase 1950

Copyright

Public domain

Provenance

…; private collection, Hamburg;{According to Frenzel.} …; collection Frederick Augustus II, King of Saxony (1797-1854), Dresden (L. 971); from whose heirs purchased by the dealer A.R. Ball, New York, shortly before 1945; from whom, $5,000, to the museum (L. 2228a), 1950

Bibliography and list of abbreviations for the provenance (pdf)

Relations

Documentation

Hercules Segers: painter, etcher, Hercules, 1589 Seghers / 1590-1637 / 1638, p. 187, cat.nr. HB 17 II b
Hercules Segers, Hercules, 1589 Seghers / 1590-1637 / 1638, p. 75, cat.nr. 7 II b
Grafiek van Hercules Seghers, Jan, 1922-1995 Verbeek, p. 19, cat.nr. 10
Van Fotocommissie tot Rijksmuseum-Stichting (1920-1998), Jan Piet Filedt Kok, afb. 12

Persistent URL

To refer to this object please use the following persistent URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10934/RM0001.COLLECT.55571

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