Distant View with a Road and Mossy Branches, Hercules Segers, c. 1622 - c. 1625

Title(s)

Distant View with a Road and Mossy Branches

Object type

• print

Object number

RP-P-OB-811

Catalogue reference

• Hollstein Dutch 27-2(3)p
• Leeflang 27-2(3)p
• Haverkamp-Begemann 27-2(3)p

Description

Uitgestrekt fantasielandschap met rechts heuvels en op de voorgrond een sparretak.

Artist

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

Place

Amsterdam (possibly)

Dating

c. 1622 - c. 1625

Physical features

line etching and drypoint, printed in blue on paper prepared with light brown, lead-based ground, coloured with paint in dark green and greyish blue, covered with a layer of varnish

Material

• paper
• paint (coating)
• varnish

Technique

etching / drypoint / hand coloring

Measurements

height c. 136 mm × width c. 184 mm (trimmed within the printed surface, except on left and at top)

What

• plants; vegetation (+ branch, stick)
• cultivated land

Credit line

• Transferred from the Koninklijke Bibliotheek (The Hague), 1816

Acquisition

transferred 1816

Copyright

Public domain

Provenance

• Hercules Segers : painter, etcher, Hercules Seghers, Huigen Leeflang, Pieter Roelofs, p. 202, cat.nr. HB 27 II p
• Hercules Segers : the complete etchings, Karel Gerard Boon, Egbert Haverkamp Begemann, Eduard Trautscholdt, p. 82, cat.nr. 27 IIp
• Grafiek van Hercules Seghers, Karel Gerard Boon, Jan Verbeek, p. 20, cat.nr. 18