Castle with Tall Towers, Hercules Segers, c. 1622 - c. 1625

Identification

Title(s)

Castle with Tall Towers

Object type

print

Object number

RP-P-H-OB-854

Catalogue reference

Hollstein Dutch 38
Leeflang 38
Haverkamp-Begemann 38

Description

Kasteel met twee hoge torens en een kleinere toren.

Creation

Artist

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

Place

Amsterdam (possibly)

Dating

c. 1622 - c. 1625

Material and Technique

Physical features

lift-ground etching, dots in the sky due to foul biting in the ground, printed in black on paper prepared with a bluish-grey, lead-based ground, coloured with transparent paint in light and darker grey and light brown

Material

Technique

lift-ground etching / hand coloring

Measurements

height c. 97 mm × width c. 132 mm (trimmed within the printed surface)

Explanatory note

unicum

Subject

What

Acquisition and rights

Credit line

On loan from the City of Amsterdam

Acquisition

loan 1885

Copyright

Public domain

Provenance

...; collection Michiel Hinloopen (1619-1708), Amsterdam;{According to L. 11.} by whom bequeathed to the City of Amsterdam (L. 11), 1708; from which on loan to the museum (L. 2228a), since 1885

Bibliography and list of abbreviations for the provenance (pdf)

Documentation

Hercules Segers : painter, etcher, Hercules Seghers, Huigen Leeflang, Pieter Roelofs, p. 222, cat.nr. HB 38
Hercules Segers : the complete etchings, Karel Gerard Boon, Egbert Haverkamp Begemann, Eduard Trautscholdt, p. 87, cat.nr. 38
Grafiek van Hercules Seghers, Karel Gerard Boon, Jan Verbeek, p. 25, cat.nr. 62

Persistent URL

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