Ruins of the Abbey of Rijnsburg, Large Version, Hercules Segers, c. 1625 - c. 1630
line etching with tone and highlights created by the use of crosshatching and stopping-out with lines left blank, intended specifically for printing in light-coloured ink on a darker surface, printed in yellowish white (lead-tin yellow) on paper prepared with a black ground, coloured with opaque blue paint and opaque red paint, h c.193mm × w c.315mm Catalogue entry
Here the rocks are painted red and the sky blue. The interplay of the printed yellowish white lines and the overpainting yielded a hybrid artwork, a cross between a painting and a print. The varnish was applied later and has browned in the course of time.
