Mountain Landscape with a Crest, Second Version, Hercules Segers, c. 1622 - c. 1625
line etching with lines left blank intended specifically for printing in light-coloured ink on a darker surface, printed in light blue on paper prepared with a dark greyish-brown, lead-based ground, coloured with yellowish-green paint, h c.102mm × w c.180mm Catalogue entry
This etching is a variant of the adjacent ones (RP-P-H-OB-817, RP-P-H-OB-815). Segers used this plate only for impressions in light ink on a dark ground. The lighter passages, namely, are printed. The dark lines are reserved and show the dark underground.
