Valley with a River and a Town with Four Towers, Hercules Segers, c. 1626 - c. 1627

Identification

Title(s)

Valley with a River and a Town with Four Towers

Object type

print

Object number

RP-P-OB-836

Catalogue reference

Hollstein Dutch 29-c
Remark: tweede staat van twee
Leeflang 29-c
Haverkamp-Begemann 29-c

Creation

Artist

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

Place

Amsterdam (possibly)

Dating

c. 1626 - c. 1627

Material and Technique

Physical features

line etching and drypoint, printed in dark blue on paper prepared with a greyish-green, lead-based ground, coloured with paint in transparent green, transparent bluish-grey, transparent brown; framing line in brush and dark brown ink

Material

Technique

etching / drypoint

Measurements

height c. 199 mm × width c. 323 mm (trimmed within the printed surface)

Subject

What

Acquisition and rights

Credit line

Transferred from the Koninklijke Bibliotheek (The Hague), 1816

Acquisition

transfer 1816

Copyright

Public domain

Provenance

...; 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, 1816

Bibliography and list of abbreviations for the provenance (pdf)

Documentation

Hercules Segers : painter, etcher, Hercules Seghers, Huigen Leeflang, Pieter Roelofs, p. 206, cat.nr. HB 29c
Hercules Segers : the complete etchings, Karel Gerard Boon, Egbert Haverkamp Begemann, Eduard Trautscholdt, p. 83, cat.nr. 29c
Grafiek van Hercules Seghers, Karel Gerard Boon, Jan Verbeek, p. 23, cat.nr. 48

Persistent URL

To refer to this object please use the following persistent URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10934/RM0001.COLLECT.37281

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