Valley with a River and a Town with Four Towers, Hercules Segers, c. 1626 - c. 1627

Title(s)

Valley with a River and a Town with Four Towers

Object type

• print

Object number

RP-P-OB-836

Catalogue reference

• Hollstein Dutch 29-c
  Remark: tweede staat van twee
• Leeflang 29-c
• Haverkamp-Begemann 29-c

Artist

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

Place

Amsterdam (possibly)

Dating

c. 1626 - c. 1627

Physical features

line etching and drypoint, printed in dark blue on paper prepared with a greyish-green, lead-based ground, coloured with paint in transparent green, transparent bluish-grey, transparent brown; framing line in brush and dark brown ink

Material

• paper
• paint (coating)

Technique

etching / drypoint / hand coloring

Measurements

height c. 199 mm × width c. 323 mm (trimmed within the printed surface)

What

• dale, valley
• prospect of city, town panorama, silhouette of city

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. 206, cat.nr. HB 29c
• Hercules Segers : the complete etchings, Karel Gerard Boon, Egbert Haverkamp Begemann, Eduard Trautscholdt, p. 83, cat.nr. 29c
• Grafiek van Hercules Seghers, Karel Gerard Boon, Jan Verbeek, p. 23, cat.nr. 48