Rocky Landscape with a Gorge, First Version

Hercules Segers, c. 1625 - c. 1630

Fragments of a ship can be discerned in the sky above the landscape. Segers cut the large plate with the ship into pieces and used them for three etchings of mountain landscapes.

  • Artwork typeprint
  • Object numberRP-P-1951-528
  • Dimensionsheight 167 mm x width 153 mm (trimmed within the printed surface on left, right and top)
  • Physical characteristicsline etching, printed in blue on paper prepared with a pink, lead-based ground; counterproof of the same print on verso, printed in blue

Identification

  • Title(s)

    • Rocky Landscape with a Road Bordering a Gorge: First Version
    • Rocky Landscape with a Gorge, First Version

  • Object type

  • Object number

    RP-P-1951-528

  • Description

    Het rotslandschap is geëtst op een fragment van een oorspronkelijk veel grotere etsplaat, waarop een schip was voorgesteld. De tuigage van dit schip is vooral in de lucht en rechts in het landschap nog zichtbaar.

  • Part of catalogue

  • Catalogue reference

    • Leeflang 17-2(2)b
    • Haverkamp-Begemann 17-2(2)B
    • Hollstein Dutch 17-2(2)b

Creation

  • Creation

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

  • Dating

    c. 1625 - c. 1630

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Material and technique

  • Physical description

    line etching, printed in blue on paper prepared with a pink, lead-based ground; counterproof of the same print on verso, printed in blue

  • Dimensions

    height 167 mm x width 153 mm (trimmed within the printed surface on left, right and top)

This work is about

  • Subject

Acquisition and rights

  • Credit line

    Purchased with the support of the Vereniging Rembrandt, the Stichting tot Bevordering van de Belangen van het Rijksmuseum and I. de Bruijn

  • Acquisition

    purchase 1950

  • Copyright

    Public domain

  • Provenance

    …; private collection, Hamburg;{According to Frenzel.} …; collection Frederick Augustus II, King of Saxony (1797-1854), Dresden (L. 971); from whose heirs purchased by the dealer A.R. Ball, New York, shortly before 1945; from whom, $5,000, to the museum (L. 2228a), 1950

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