Landscape with a Plateau, a River in the Distance, Hercules Segers, c. 1622 - c. 1625
line etching, printed from two plates on thin white paper, coloured with transparent, dark blue paint, probably first the original etching plate was printed in black and then the tone plate in a pale, lead-based yellow (lead-tin yellow), h c.143mm × w c.105mm Catalogue entry
Over an impression of the first plate in black (RP-P-H-OB-799), Segers used a second plate to print the pale yellow highlights. This may be the earliest example of what is called printing in register. The blue prepared paper makes the scene look like a nocturnal landscape over which an invisible moon casts its light.
