Distant View with a Road and Mossy Branches, Hercules Segers, c. 1622 - c. 1625

Title(s)

Distant View with a Road and Mossy Branches

Object type

• print

Object number

RP-P-OB-810

Catalogue reference

• Hollstein Dutch 27-1(3)c
• Leeflang 27-1(3)c
• Haverkamp-Begemann 27-1(3)c

Description

Uitgestrekt fantasielandschap met rechts heuvels en op de voorgrond een sparretak.

Artist

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

Place

Amsterdam (possibly)

Dating

c. 1622 - c. 1625

Physical features

line etching, printed in dark blue on cotton prepared with a yellowish-grey, lead-based ground, coloured with paint in alternating sections of darker and lighter brown, light and darker greyish brown, green and darker bluish-green, and greyish blue, highlighted with dry, greyish-white paint

Material

• cotton (textile)
• paint (coating)

Technique

etching

Measurements

height c. 140 mm × width c. 191 mm (trimmed within the printed surface at left; a margin is visible at top, bottom and right, which has been partially painted over)

What

• plants; vegetation (+ branch, stick)
• cultivated land

Credit line

• Transferred from the Koninklijke Bibliotheek (The Hague), 1816

Acquisition

transfer 1816

Copyright

Public domain

Provenance

• Hercules Segers : painter, etcher, Hercules Seghers, Huigen Leeflang, Pieter Roelofs, p. 200, cat.nr. HB 27 I c
• Hercules Segers : the complete etchings, Karel Gerard Boon, Egbert Haverkamp Begemann, Eduard Trautscholdt, p. 81, cat.nr. 27 Ic
• Grafiek van Hercules Seghers, Karel Gerard Boon, Jan Verbeek, p. 20, cat.nr. 17