Rocky Landscape with a Man Walking to the Right, First Version, Hercules Segers, c. 1625 - c. 1630

Title(s)

Rocky Landscape with a Man Walking to the Right, First Version
Rocky Landscape with a Man Walking to the Right: First Version

Object type

• print

Object number

RP-P-H-OB-823

Catalogue reference

• Hollstein Dutch 19-b
• Leeflang 19-b
• Haverkamp-Begemann 19-b

Description

Eerste versie van het rotsachtige landschap met een wandelaar.

Artist

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

Place

Amsterdam (possibly)

Dating

c. 1625 - c. 1630

Physical features

line etching and drypoint, stripes and dots in sky caused by foul biting in ground, printed in blue on paper prepared with two lead-based pink grounds, one uniform and opaque and the other more transparent; framing line in brown ink on left side only

Material

• paper

Technique

etching / drypoint

Measurements

height c. 141 mm × width c. 201 mm (trimmed within the printed surface, except at top; approx. 8 mm missing on left and right)

What

• rocks
• walking, hiking (recreation)

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. 188, cat.nr. HB 19b
• Hercules Segers : the complete etchings, Karel Gerard Boon, Egbert Haverkamp Begemann, Eduard Trautscholdt, p. 75-76, cat.nr. 19b
• Grafiek van Hercules Seghers, Karel Gerard Boon, Jan Verbeek, p. 22, cat.nr. 34