A Road Bordered by Trees, a City in the Background, Hercules Segers, c. 1622 - c. 1625

Title(s)

A Road Bordered by Trees, a City in the Background

Object type

• print

Object number

RP-P-H-OB-802

Catalogue reference

• Hollstein Dutch 26-b
• Leeflang 26-b
• Haverkamp-Begemann 26-b

Description

Pad langs bosrand. In de verte een stad met twee kerktorens, dit zou Amersfoort kunnen zijn.

Artist

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

Place

Amsterdam (possibly)

Dating

c. 1622 - c. 1625

Physical features

lift-ground etching, traces of groove from cutting plate, small dots in sky and bitten edge around spot at top right caused by foul biting in ground, printed in green on cream-coloured paper

Material

• paper

Technique

lift-ground etching / aquatint

Measurements

height c. 134 mm × width c. 102 mm (trimmed along or within the plate mark at left and bottom; remains of groove visible; trimmed within the printed surface on right and especially at top)

What

• city-view in general; 'veduta'
• fringe, edge of the wood

Where

• Amersfoort

Credit line

• On loan from the City of Amsterdam

Acquisition

loan 1885

Copyright

Public domain

Provenance

• Hercules Segers : painter, etcher, Hercules Seghers, Huigen Leeflang, Pieter Roelofs, p. 199, cat.nr. HB 26b
• Hercules Segers : the complete etchings, Karel Gerard Boon, Egbert Haverkamp Begemann, Eduard Trautscholdt, p. 80, cat.nr. 26b
• Grafiek van Hercules Seghers, Karel Gerard Boon, Jan Verbeek, p. 19, cat.nr. 7