Landscape with a Plateau, a River in the Distance, Hercules Segers, c. 1622 - c. 1625
line etching, printed in black on thin, white oriental paper, fragments of printed framing line on both sides, h c.137mm × w c.106mm Catalogue entry
It was recently determined that this etching is printed on paper from the Far East. Insofar as is known Segers, thus, was the first artist in Europe to use this kind of paper, more than twenty years before Rembrandt would print his etchings on Japanese paper.
