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Rocky Landscape with a Road and a River
Hercules Segers, c. 1622 - c. 1625
This is an impression of the same plate as the adjacent etching (RP-P-H-OB-833). The landscape gained depth and structure through the interplay of the printed lines and the colouring with the brush. In the process of overpainting Segers added two small figures on the road at the right.
- Artwork typeprint
- Object numberRP-P-OB-832
- Dimensionsheight 236 mm x width 283 mm (trimmed within the printed surface, except at top)
- Physical characteristicsline etching with tone and highlights created by crosshatching and stopping-out, etching trials, spots caused by foul biting in etching ground, printed in black on paper prepared with a pinkish-white, lead-based ground, coloured with paint in semi-transparent white, greenish-blue and greenish-yellow and brown