The Enclosed Valley, Hercules Segers, c. 1625 - c. 1630
line etching, printed in black on linen prepared with a grey, lead-based ground, coloured with paint in transparent light brown, a more opaque dark grey and transparent light grey, h c.108mm × w c.194mm Catalogue entry
The earliest impressions of this etching are on linen. By painting the foreground with brown paint and the background with grey or blue, Segers subsequently added a subtle colour perspective.
