Valley with a River and a Town with Four Towers, Hercules Segers, c. 1626 - c. 1627
line etching and drypoint, craquelure patterns in sky, due to cracks in etching ground, printed in blue on paper prepared with a greyish-green, lead-based ground, coloured with transparent purplish-red paint and semi-transparent, light bluish-grey paint, h c.207mm × w c.332mm Catalogue entry
The roads, buildings, and rocks in this etching are a claret colour. The same elements in the painting are coloured brown, pink, and red. This makes it plausible that Segers wielded the brush himself in both works.
