Landscape with a Plateau, a River in the Distance

Hercules Segers, c. 1622 - c. 1625

Over an impression of the first plate in black (RP-P-H-OB-799), Segers used a second plate to print the pale yellow highlights. This may be the earliest example of what is called printing in register. The blue prepared paper makes the scene look like a nocturnal landscape over which an invisible moon casts its light.

Artwork typeprint
Object numberRP-P-H-OB-800
Dimensionsheight 143 mm x width 105 mm (trimmed within the printed surface)
Physical characteristicsline etching, printed from two plates on thin white paper, coloured with transparent, dark blue paint, probably first the original etching plate was printed in black and then the tone plate in a pale, lead-based yellow (lead-tin yellow)