View of Wageningen

Hercules Segers, c. 1628 - c. 1630

The print shows Wageningen in reverse and so it was probably made after the painting (National Galleries of Scotland, NG2800). At the left Segers added mountains that do not in fact exist.

  • Artwork typeprint
  • Object numberRP-P-OB-846
  • Dimensionsheight 84 mm x width 296 mm (trimmed within the printed surface, except at top)
  • Physical characteristicsline etching and drypoint, printed in dark green on paper prepared with a light green, lead-based ground, coloured with paint in semi-transparent, glossy red, semi-transparent blue, transparent dark green, semi-transparent greyish-brown, opaque purple and opaque blue; framing line in brown ink

Identification

  • Title(s)

    View of Wageningen

  • Object type

  • Object number

    RP-P-OB-846

  • Description

    Landschap met een gezicht op een stad met twee molens, links een rots.

  • Part of catalogue

  • Catalogue reference

    • Haverkamp-Begemann 31-a
    • Leeflang 31-a
    • Hollstein Dutch 31-a

Creation

  • Creation

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

  • Dating

    c. 1628 - c. 1630

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Material and technique

  • Physical description

    line etching and drypoint, printed in dark green on paper prepared with a light green, lead-based ground, coloured with paint in semi-transparent, glossy red, semi-transparent blue, transparent dark green, semi-transparent greyish-brown, opaque purple and opaque blue; framing line in brown ink

  • Dimensions

    height 84 mm x width 296 mm (trimmed within the printed surface, except at top)

This work is about

  • Subject

  • Place

Acquisition and rights

  • Copyright

    Public domain

  • Provenance

    …; collection S. Coster (fl. seventeenth century), place unknown (L. 462); …; collection Pieter Cornelis, Baron van Leyden (1717-1788), Leiden;{According to L. 240.} his daughter, Françoise Johanna Gael-van Leyden (1745-1813), Leiden;{According to L. 240.} from whom, en bloc, fl. 100,000, to Louis Napoléon Bonaparte (1778-1846), King of Holland, Amsterdam, for the Koninklijke Bibliotheek (L. 240), The Hague, 1807; transferred to the museum (L. 2233), 1816

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