A Road Bordered by Trees, a Cityin the Background

• A Road Bordered by Trees, a City in the Background
• A Road Bordered by Trees, a Cityin the Background

RP-P-OB-801

Pad langs bossige rand. In de verte een stad met twee kerktorens, dit zou Amersfoort kunnen zijn.

• Leeflang 26-a
• Haverkamp-Begemann 26-a
• Hollstein Dutch 26-a

• printmaker: Hercules Segers, Amsterdam (possibly)
• after design by Hercules Segers

c. 1622 - c. 1625

lift-ground etching, etching trials, traces of groove from cutting plate, small dots in sky and bitten edge around spot at top right caused by foul biting in ground, printed in black on off-white paper, slight plate tone; framing line in brown ink at right and bottom

height 139 mm x width 105 mm (trimmed along or within the plate mark; traces of printed framing line visible, especially at bottom)

Public domain

…; 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 (L. 2166), 1816

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