Mountain Valley with a Plateau, Hercules Segers, c. 1625 - c. 1630

Title(s)

Mountain Valley with a Plateau

Object type

• print

Object number

RP-P-1961-868

Catalogue reference

• Hollstein Dutch 10-1(2)a
• Leeflang 10-1(2)a
• Haverkamp-Begemann 10-1(2)a

Artist

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

Place

Amsterdam (possibly)

Dating

c. 1625 - c. 1630

Physical features

line etching and drypoint, with plate tone, fragments of printed framing line along the bottom, right and centre, printed in blue on paper prepared with a pink, lead-based ground; on the verso fragment of a counterproof of a print printed in blue at top left

Material

• paper

Technique

etching / drypoint / hand coloring

Measurements

height 135 mm × width 188 mm (trimmed within the plate mark on left and right and probably at top; along the plate mark at bottom)

What

• rocks

Credit line

• Mr and Mrs De Bruijn-van der Leeuw Bequest, Muri, Switzerland

Acquisition

bequest 1961

Copyright

Public domain

Provenance

• Hercules Segers : painter, etcher, Hercules Seghers, Huigen Leeflang, Pieter Roelofs, p. 176, cat.nr. HB 10 I a
• Hercules Segers : the complete etchings, Karel Gerard Boon, Egbert Haverkamp Begemann, Eduard Trautscholdt, p. 69, cat.nr. 10Ia
• Grafiek van Hercules Seghers, Karel Gerard Boon, Jan Verbeek, p. 22, cat.nr. 31
• De etsen [uit de schenking De Bruijn], Karel Gerard Boon, p. 113, afb. 40, cat.nr. 87