Landscape with an Oak Tree and a Distant View, Hercules Segers, c. 1618 - c. 1622

Title(s)

Landscape with an Oak Tree and a Distant View

Object type

• print

Object number

RP-P-H-OB-851

Catalogue reference

• Hollstein Dutch 28-b
• Leeflang 28-b
• Haverkamp-Begemann 28-b

Artist

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

Place

Amsterdam (possibly)

Dating

c. 1618 - c. 1622

Physical features

counterproof (possibly) of line etching in black on cotton prepared with a light brown, lead-based ground; framing line in brown ink at top, bottom and right

Material

• cotton (textile)

Technique

etching

Measurements

height c. 75 mm × width c. 134 mm (trimmed within the printed surface)

What

• landscapes in the temperate zone
• landscape with tower or castle
• trees: oak

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. 203, cat.nr. HB 28b
• Hercules Segers : the complete etchings, Karel Gerard Boon, Egbert Haverkamp Begemann, Eduard Trautscholdt, p. 82, cat.nr. 28b
• Grafiek van Hercules Seghers, Karel Gerard Boon, Jan Verbeek, p. 25, cat.nr. 60