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Distant View with a Road and Mossy Branches
Hercules Segers, c. 1622 - c. 1625
The colouration of this counterproof on cotton probably remained unfinished. At the bottom the print is priced at 3 stivers (1 stiver was a small Dutch coin equal to one twentieth of a guilder) in 17th-century handwriting.
- Artwork typeprint
- Object numberRP-P-1883-A-6993
- Dimensionsheight 146 mm x width 196 mm (trimmed outside the printed surface; margins visible on all sides; this has been overpainted on left and top)
- Physical characteristicscounterproof of line etching, in black on cotton prepared with yellowish-brown, lead-based ground, coloured with greyish-green paint, light yellow oil paint, and semi-transparent white paint