Mountain Landscape with a Plateau, Hercules Segers, c. 1625 - c. 1630
line etching and drypoint, fragments of a printed framing line along the bottom, right and centre, printed in green on paper prepared with a yellow, lead-based ground; overpainted with a thin, transparent, greyish-green and brown paint, highlighted with dry white paint; framing line in grey ink, h 126mm × w 202mm Catalogue entry
As happens so often the shadows in drypoint wore down (RP-P-OB-820). They were replaced by triangular and round stipples pricked directly into the plate with a punch (a metal tool).
