Mountain Valley with the Remains of a Ship, Hercules Segers, c. 1623 - c. 1625

Title(s)

Mountain Valley with the Remains of a Ship
Mountain Valley with Tree Stumps and the Remains of a Ship in the Foreground

Object type

• print

Object number

RP-P-H-OB-819

Catalogue reference

• Hollstein Dutch 8-a
• Leeflang 8-a
• Haverkamp-Begemann 8-a

Description

Een landschap met boomstronken.

Artist

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

Place

Amsterdam (possibly)

Dating

c. 1623 - c. 1625

Physical features

line etching and drypoint, printed in black on paper, then coloured using lead-based, greyish-blue paint and yellow, purple and white paint, printed framing line at left, top and bottom; varnished

Material

• paper
• varnish
• oil paint (paint)

Technique

etching / brush / drypoint

Measurements

height c. 138 mm × width c. 202 mm (trimmed within the plate mark, but outside the printed surface, except on right)

What

• dale, valley
• plants; vegetation (+ stump, stub)

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 8a
• Hercules Segers : the complete etchings, Karel Gerard Boon, Egbert Haverkamp Begemann, Eduard Trautscholdt, p. 68, cat.nr. 8a
• Grafiek van Hercules Seghers, Karel Gerard Boon, Jan Verbeek, p. 21, cat.nr. 28