Ruins of the Abbey of Rijnsburg, Small Version, Hercules Segers, c. 1618 - c. 1622

Title(s)

Ruins of the Abbey of Rijnsburg, Small Version
Ruins of the Abbey of Rijnsburg from the South: Small Version

Object type

• print

Object number

RP-P-OB-860

Catalogue reference

• Hollstein Dutch 47-1(2)a
• Leeflang 47-1(2)a
• Haverkamp-Begemann 47-1(2)a

Description

Kleine versie van de ruïne van de abdij van Rijnsburg.

Artist

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

Place

Amsterdam (possibly)

Dating

c. 1618 - c. 1622

Physical features

line etching, etching trials, spots caused by foul biting in etching ground, printed in black on linen prepared with a bluish-grey, lead-based ground, coloured with transparent, bluish-grey paint and transparent yellow paint; framing line in grey ink on bottom and right side

Material

• linen (material)

Technique

etching

Measurements

height c. 96 mm × width c. 175 mm (trimmed outside the printed surface, except at left)

What

• ruin of church, monastery, etc.

Where

• Abdij van Rijnsburg

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. 225, cat.nr. HB 47 I a
• Hercules Segers : the complete etchings, Karel Gerard Boon, Egbert Haverkamp Begemann, Eduard Trautscholdt, p. 91, cat.nr. 47 Ia
• Grafiek van Hercules Seghers, Karel Gerard Boon, Jan Verbeek, p. 26, cat.nr. 68