Mountain Valley with Fenced Fields, Hercules Segers, c. 1625 - c. 1630
line etching and drypoint, an etched horizontal framing line in margin at bottom, printed in blue on paper, with a great deal of plate tone, sky painted with brushstrokes of transparent blue paint, h c.250mm × w c.401mm Catalogue entry
Segers printed this nocturnal scene with a generous amount of plate tone: he did not wipe all of the ink from the etching plate. Next he overpainted the impression with blue watercolour. The valley seems bathed in the light of an invisible moon.
