Rocky Landscape with a Road and a River

Hercules Segers, c. 1622 - c. 1625

Segers first applied a network of intersecting lines. He covered the areas that had to remain white with so-called ‘stopping-out varnish’. Segers simply left the coarse crosshatching and the foul bitten spots in the sky because they would be covered when he overpainted the impression.

Artwork typeprint
Object numberRP-P-H-OB-833
Dimensionsheight 163 mm x width 246 mm (heavily trimmed on all sides, especially on right and at bottom where large parts of the image are missing)
Physical characteristicsline etching with tone and highlights created by crosshatching and stopping-out, ectching trials, spots caused by foul biting in etching ground, printed in black on paper