Rocky Landscape with a Road and a River, Hercules Segers, c. 1622 - c. 1625

Rocky Landscape with a Road and a River, Hercules Segers, c. 1622 - c. 1625

line etching with tone and highlights created by crosshatching and stopping-out, etching trials, spots caused by foul biting in etching ground, printed in black on paper prepared with a pinkish-white, lead-based ground, coloured with paint in semi-transparent white, greenish-blue and greenish-yellow and brown, h c.236mm × w c.283mm Catalogue entry

This is an impression of the same plate as the adjacent etching (RP-P-H-OB-833). The landscape gained depth and structure through the interplay of the printed lines and the colouring with the brush. In the process of overpainting Segers added two small figures on the road at the right.

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