Rocky Landscape with a Tall Tower, Hercules Segers, c. 1623 - c. 1625

Title(s)

Rocky Landscape with a Tall Tower
Rocky Landscape with a Village and a Tall Tower

Object type

• print

Object number

RP-P-H-OB-818

Catalogue reference

• Hollstein Dutch 7-1(2)a
• Leeflang 7-1(2)a
• Haverkamp-Begemann 7-1(2)a

Artist

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

Place

Amsterdam (possibly)

Dating

c. 1623 - c. 1625

Physical features

line etching, printed in greenish-blue on paper prepared with a cream-coloured ground containing lead; some plate tone; framing line in brown ink, except on right side

Material

• paper

Technique

etching / intaglio printmaking technique

Measurements

height c. 120 mm × width c. 192 mm (trimmed along the plate mark at the top and within the plate mark on sides and bottom)

What

• rocks
• landscape with other man-made constructions not mentioned above, e.g.: graveyards, playgrounds, etc.

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. 175, cat.nr. HB 7 I a
• Hercules Segers : the complete etchings, Karel Gerard Boon, Egbert Haverkamp Begemann, Eduard Trautscholdt, p. 68, cat.nr. 7 Ia
• Grafiek van Hercules Seghers, Karel Gerard Boon, Jan Verbeek, p. 21, cat.nr. 27