Landscape with a Steep Cliff, Small Version

Hercules Segers, c. 1622 - c. 1625

For this impression the plate was reworked, but then in the usual etching technique. By means of scratchy line patterns, Segers lent the rocks their characteristic structure.

  • Artwork typeprint
  • Object numberRP-P-1910-2012
  • Dimensionsheight 95 mm x width 138 mm (trimmed within the printed surface, except on left and at top)
  • Physical characteristicslift-ground etching, line-etching, printed in black on paper prepared with a bluish-grey, lead-based ground; framing line in grey ink

Identification

  • Title(s)

    • Landscape with a Steep Cliff and a Stream: Small Version
    • Landscape with a Steep Cliff, Small Version

  • Object type

  • Object number

    RP-P-1910-2012

  • Part of catalogue

  • Catalogue reference

    • Leeflang 23-2(2)d
    • Hollstein Dutch 23-2(2)d
    • Haverkamp-Begemann 23-2(2)d

Creation

  • Creation

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

  • Dating

    c. 1622 - c. 1625

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Material and technique

  • Physical description

    lift-ground etching, line-etching, printed in black on paper prepared with a bluish-grey, lead-based ground; framing line in grey ink

  • Dimensions

    height 95 mm x width 138 mm (trimmed within the printed surface, except on left and at top)

This work is about

  • Subject

Acquisition and rights

  • Credit line

    Purchased with the support of the Vereniging Rembrandt

  • Acquisition

    purchase 1910

  • Copyright

    Public domain

  • Provenance

    …; from the dealer J.H. Odink, Amsterdam, fl. 150, to the museum (L. 2228a), 1910

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