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Valley with a River and a Town with Four Towers, Hercules Segers, c. 1626 - c. 1627
line etching and drypoint, printed in blue on paper prepared with a brownish-grey (?), lead-based ground, coloured with light brown, bluish-green, light blue, white and dark blue paint, h c.194mm × w c.331mm
Catalogue entry
line etching and drypoint, printed in blue on paper prepared with a brownish-grey (?), lead-based ground, coloured with light brown, bluish-green, light blue, white and dark blue paint
...; collection Pieter Cornelis, Baron van Leyden (1717-1788), Leiden;{According to L. 240.} his daughter, Françoise Johanna Gael-van Leyden (1745-1813), Leiden;{According to L. 240.} from whom, en bloc, fl. 100,000, to Louis Napoléon Bonaparte (1778-1846), King of Holland, Amsterdam, for the Koninklijke Bibliotheek (L. 240), The Hague, 1807; transferred to the museum, 1816