Distant View with a Road and Mossy Branches, Hercules Segers, c. 1622 - c. 1625

Title(s)

Distant View with a Road and Mossy Branches

Object type

• print

Object number

RP-P-H-OB-808

Catalogue reference

• Hollstein Dutch 27-1(3)a
• Leeflang 27-1(3)a
• Haverkamp-Begemann 27-1(3)a

Description

Uitgestrekt fantasielandschap met rechts heuvels en op de voorgrond een sparretak.

Artist

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

Place

Amsterdam (possibly)

Dating

c. 1622 - c. 1625

Physical features

line etching, printed in dark brown on paper prepared with a purplish-brown, lead-based ground; verso: counterproofs in same colour brown as ink on recto

Material

• paper

Technique

etching

Measurements

height c. 130 mm × width c. 188 mm (trimmed within the printed surface, except on right where a margin is visible)

What

• plants; vegetation (+ branch, stick)
• cultivated land

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 27 I a
• Hercules Segers : the complete etchings, Karel Gerard Boon, Egbert Haverkamp Begemann, Eduard Trautscholdt, p. 81, cat.nr. 27 Ia
• Grafiek van Hercules Seghers, Karel Gerard Boon, Jan Verbeek, p. 20, cat.nr. 15