Landscape with a Waterfall, Second Version, Hercules Segers, c. 1625 - c. 1627

Title(s)

Landscape with a Waterfall, Second Version
Landscape with a Waterfall: Second Version

Object type

• print

Object number

RP-P-H-OB-829

Catalogue reference

• Hollstein Dutch 22-2(4)d
• Leeflang 22-2(4)d
• Haverkamp-Begemann 22-2(4)d

Artist

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

Place

Amsterdam (possibly)

Dating

c. 1625 - c. 1627

Physical features

line etching with tone and highlights created by means of direct etching and stopping-out, etching trials, spots caused by foul biting in etching ground, printed in dark bluish-green on paper; framing line in brown ink on sides only; impression on verso: counterproof at top from same (?) print, printed in bluish-green

Material

• paper

Technique

etching / drypoint

Measurements

height c. 148 mm × width c. 192 mm (trimmed within the printed surface)

What

• mountains
• waterfall

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. 191, cat.nr. HB 22 II d
• Hercules Segers : the complete etchings, Karel Gerard Boon, Egbert Haverkamp Begemann, Eduard Trautscholdt, p. 78, cat.nr. 22 IId
• Grafiek van Hercules Seghers, Karel Gerard Boon, Jan Verbeek, p. 23, cat.nr. 40