Small Wooded Landscape with a Road and a House, Hercules Segers, c. 1618 - c. 1622

Title(s)

Small Wooded Landscape with a Road and a House

Object type

• print

Object number

RP-P-H-OB-852

Catalogue reference

• Hollstein Dutch 35-a
• Leeflang 35-a
• Haverkamp-Begemann 35-a

Description

Een pad door een bos, aan het einde ervan een huis.

Artist

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

Place

Amsterdam (possibly)

Dating

c. 1618 - c. 1622

Physical features

line etching, printed in black on cotton prepared with light grey, lead-based ground

Material

• cotton (textile)

Technique

etching

Measurements

height c. 103 mm × width c. 90 mm (trimmed within the printed surface, in particualr at the top, where at least 50 mm is missing)

What

• forest, wood
• farm or solitary house in landscape
• road, path

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. 215, cat.nr. HB 35a
• Hercules Segers : the complete etchings, Karel Gerard Boon, Egbert Haverkamp Begemann, Eduard Trautscholdt, p. 86, cat.nr. 35a
• Grafiek van Hercules Seghers, Karel Gerard Boon, Jan Verbeek, p.25, cat.nr. 61