Rocky Landscape with a Man Walking to the Right, First Version

Hercules Segers, c. 1625 - c. 1630

Eerste versie van het rotsachtige landschap met een wandelaar.

  • Artwork typeprint
  • Object numberRP-P-H-OB-823
  • Dimensionsheight 141 mm x width 201 mm (trimmed within the printed surface, except at top; approx. 8 mm missing on left and right)
  • Physical characteristicsline etching and drypoint, stripes and dots in sky caused by foul biting in ground, printed in blue on paper prepared with two lead-based pink grounds, one uniform and opaque and the other more transparent; framing line in brown ink on left side only

Identification

  • Title(s)

    • Rocky Landscape with a Man Walking to the Right, First Version
    • Rocky Landscape with a Man Walking to the Right: First Version

  • Object type

  • Object number

    RP-P-H-OB-823

  • Description

    Eerste versie van het rotsachtige landschap met een wandelaar.

  • Part of catalogue

  • Catalogue reference

    • Haverkamp-Begemann 19-b
    • Hollstein Dutch 19-b
    • Leeflang 19-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 and drypoint, stripes and dots in sky caused by foul biting in ground, printed in blue on paper prepared with two lead-based pink grounds, one uniform and opaque and the other more transparent; framing line in brown ink on left side only

  • Dimensions

    height 141 mm x width 201 mm (trimmed within the printed surface, except at top; approx. 8 mm missing on left and right)

This work is about

  • Subject

Acquisition and rights

  • Credit line

    On loan from the City of Amsterdam

  • Copyright

    Public domain

  • Provenance

    …; collection Michiel Hinloopen (1619-1708), Amsterdam;{According to L. 11.} by whom bequeathed to the City of Amsterdam (L. 11), 1708; from which on loan to the museum (L. 2228a), since 1885

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