Rocky Landscape with a Road and a River, Hercules Segers, c. 1622 - c. 1625
line etching with tone and highlights created by crosshatching and stopping-out, ectching trials, spots caused by foul biting in etching ground, printed in black on paper, h c.163mm × w c.246mm Catalogue entry
Segers first applied a network of intersecting lines. He covered the areas that had to remain white with so-called ‘stopping-out varnish’. Segers simply left the coarse crosshatching and the foul bitten spots in the sky because they would be covered when he overpainted the impression.
