Rocky Landscape with a Man Walking to the Right, First Version, Hercules Segers, 1625 - 1630

Title(s)

Rocky Landscape with a Man Walking to the Right, First Version
Rocky Landscape with a Man Walking to the Right: First Version

Object type

• print

Object number

RP-P-OB-822

Catalogue reference

• Hollstein Dutch 19-a
• Leeflang 19-a
• Haverkamp-Begemann 19-a

Description

Eerste versie van het rotsachtige landschap met een wandelaar.

Artist

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

Place

Amsterdam

Dating

1625 - 1630

Physical features

line etching and drypoint, stripes and dots in sky caused by foul biting in ground, printed in blue on paper prepared with pink, lead-based ground, plate tone, coloured with paint in transparent brown, green, dark grey, transparent red and opaque bluish-white; large printing fold on left, irregular printed framing lines at bottom and top

Material

• paper
• linen (material)
• deck paint

Technique

etching / brush / drypoint / hand coloring

Measurements

height c. 156 mm × width c. 209 mm (trimmed within the printed surface on left and right)

What

• rocks
• walking, hiking (recreation)

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. 188, cat.nr. HB 19a
• Hercules Segers : the complete etchings, Karel Gerard Boon, Egbert Haverkamp Begemann, Eduard Trautscholdt, p. 75, cat.nr. 19a
• Grafiek van Hercules Seghers, Karel Gerard Boon, Jan Verbeek, p. 22, cat.nr. 33