Landscape with a Plateau, a River in the Distance

Hercules Segers, c. 1622 - c. 1625

It was recently determined that this etching is printed on paper from the Far East. Insofar as is known Segers, thus, was the first artist in Europe to use this kind of paper, more than twenty years before Rembrandt would print his etchings on Japanese paper.

Artwork typeprint
Object numberRP-P-H-OB-799
Dimensionsheight 137 mm x width 106 mm (trimmed within the printed surface, except at top)
Physical characteristicsline etching, printed in black on thin, white oriental paper, fragments of printed framing line on both sides