A Road Bordered by Trees, a Cityin the Background, Hercules Segers, c. 1622 - c. 1625

Title(s)

A Road Bordered by Trees, a Cityin the Background
A Road Bordered by Trees, a City in the Background

Object type

• print

Object number

RP-P-OB-801

Catalogue reference

• Hollstein Dutch 26-a
• Leeflang 26-a
• Haverkamp-Begemann 26-a

Description

Pad langs bossige rand. In de verte een stad met twee kerktorens, dit zou Amersfoort kunnen zijn.

Artist

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

Place

Amsterdam (possibly)

Dating

c. 1622 - c. 1625

Physical features

lift-ground etching, etching trials, traces of groove from cutting plate, small dots in sky and bitten edge around spot at top right caused by foul biting in ground, printed in black on off-white paper, slight plate tone; framing line in brown ink at right and bottom

Material

• paper

Technique

lift-ground etching

Measurements

height c. 139 mm × width c. 105 mm (trimmed along or within the plate mark; traces of printed framing line visible, especially at bottom)

What

• city-view in general; 'veduta'
• fringe, edge of the wood

Where

• Amersfoort

Credit line

• Transferred from the Koninklijke Bibliotheek (The Hague), 1816

Acquisition

transfer 1816

Copyright

Public domain

Provenance

• Hercules Segers : painter, etcher, Hercules Seghers, Huigen Leeflang, Pieter Roelofs, p. 198, cat.nr. HB 26a
• Hercules Segers : the complete etchings, Karel Gerard Boon, Egbert Haverkamp Begemann, Eduard Trautscholdt, p. 80, cat.nr. 26a
• Grafiek van Hercules Seghers, Karel Gerard Boon, Jan Verbeek, p. 19, cat.nr. 6