Landscape with a Steep Cliff, Large Version, Hercules Segers, c. 1622 - c. 1625
line etching with dots, compact shading and highlights through the use of stopping-out, printed in dark bluish-green, lead-based colour on paper, a small white spot at lower right where the ink failed to stick, fragment of printed framing line, h c.123mm × w c.171mm Catalogue entry
Segers worked up the adjacent oil sketch (RP-T-H-00-250) in two etchings, of which this is the first and largest. A few trees were added on the left. Some areas in the etching turned out somewhat coarse.
