Mountain Valley with the Remains of a Ship

Hercules Segers, c. 1623 - c. 1625

For this landscape Segers used a piece of a larger etching plate with a depiction of a ship. The upsidedown top of a mast can be discerned at the upper right.

  • Artwork typeprint
  • Object numberRP-P-H-OB-819
  • Dimensionsheight 138 mm x width 202 mm (trimmed within the plate mark, but outside the printed surface, except on right)
  • Physical characteristicsline etching and drypoint, printed in black on paper, then coloured using lead-based, greyish-blue paint and yellow, purple and white paint, printed framing line at left, top and bottom; varnished

Identification

  • Title(s)

    • Mountain Valley with Tree Stumps and the Remains of a Ship in the Foreground
    • Mountain Valley with the Remains of a Ship

  • Object type

  • Object number

    RP-P-H-OB-819

  • Description

    Een landschap met boomstronken.

  • Part of catalogue

  • Catalogue reference

    • Leeflang 8-a
    • Hollstein Dutch 8-a
    • Haverkamp-Begemann 8-a

Creation

  • Creation

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

  • Dating

    c. 1623 - c. 1625

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Material and technique

  • Physical description

    line etching and drypoint, printed in black on paper, then coloured using lead-based, greyish-blue paint and yellow, purple and white paint, printed framing line at left, top and bottom; varnished

  • Dimensions

    height 138 mm x width 202 mm (trimmed within the plate mark, but outside the printed surface, except on 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; on loan to the museum (L. 2228a), from 1885

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