Mountain Landscape with a Crest, First Version, Hercules Segers, c. 1622 - c. 1625

Title(s)

Mountain Landscape with a Crest, First Version
Mountain Landscape with a Crest and a Forked Tree: First Version

Object type

• print

Object number

RP-P-H-OB-815

Catalogue reference

• Hollstein Dutch 15-2(2)b
• Leeflang 15-2(2)b
• Haverkamp-Begemann 15-2(2)b

Description

Eerste versie van landschap met puntige rots en gevorkte boom.

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 greenish-blue on paper prepared with cream-coloured, lead-based ground, coloured with transparent green paint, slightly more opaque bluish-green paint

Material

• paper
• paint (coating)

Technique

etching / drypoint / brush / hand coloring

Measurements

height c. 112 mm × width c. 190 mm (trimmed within the printed surface)

What

• village
• rocks

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. 186, cat.nr. HB 15 II b
• Hercules Segers : the complete etchings, Karel Gerard Boon, Egbert Haverkamp Begemann, Eduard Trautscholdt, p. 74, cat.nr. 15 IIb
• Grafiek van Hercules Seghers, Karel Gerard Boon, Jan Verbeek, p. 21, cat.nr. 24