Frieze with Ships in a Roadstead, Hercules Segers, after Hendrick Goltzius, c. 1615 - c. 1630

Title(s)

Frieze with Ships in a Roadstead

Object type

• print

Object number

RP-P-H-OB-863

Catalogue reference

• Hollstein Dutch 50-a
• Leeflang 50-a
• Haverkamp-Begemann 50-a

Description

Rechter deel van een grotere prent met aantal schepen op zee.

Artist

• print maker: Hercules Segers
• after own design by: Hercules Segers
• after print by: Hendrick Goltzius

Place

Amsterdam (possibly)

Dating

c. 1615 - c. 1630

Physical features

line etching, printed in dark grey on paper prepared with a thick, light bluish-grey, lead-based ground, coloured with paint in transparent light grey and opaque dark grey

Material

• paper
• paint (coating)

Technique

etching

Measurements

height c. 76 mm × width c. 148 mm (trimmed outside the printed surface, except on left)

What

• ships (in general)

Credit line

• On loan from the City of Amsterdam

Acquisition

loan 1885

Copyright

Public domain

Provenance

• Hercules Segers : painter, etcher, Hercules Seghers, Huigen Leeflang, Pieter Roelofs, p. 232, cat.nr. HB 50a
• Hercules Segers : the complete etchings, Karel Gerard Boon, Egbert Haverkamp Begemann, Eduard Trautscholdt, p. 92, cat.nr. 50a
• Grafiek van Hercules Seghers, Karel Gerard Boon, Jan Verbeek, p. 26, cat.nr. 71