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• Object type

  • print

• Museum number

  S.5521

• Description

  Rocky mountains with a plateau; second state with sugar-aquatint Etching, sugar-lift and drypoint with surface-tone, printed in dark-blue ink on ochre-tinted paper, brushed with olive-green

• Producer name

  • Print made by: Hercules Segers

• School/style

  • Dutch

• Date

  • 1610-1638 (circa)

• Materials

  • paper

• Technique

  • hand-coloured
  • etching
  • drypoint
  • aquatint

• Dimensions

  • Height: 135 millimetres
  • Width: 208 millimetres

• Curator's comments

  For an impression of first state see also S.5520.

• Bibliography

  • Haverkamp Begemann 10.II.e
  • Hollstein 10.II.e

• Location

  D+F XVIIc Mounted Roy

• Exhibition history

  1986 Sep-Nov, London, NG, 'Dutch Landscape'
  2012 Jan-May, BM, 'Hercules Segers'

• Conservation

  See treatments 

  Treatment date

  12 January 2012

  Treatment proposal

  Lift. Remove debris and adhesive. Support if necessary. Inlay. Mount.

  Condition

  Inlaid to solid mount with acetate window over verso inscription. Acetate held with pressure sensitive tape (adhesive has not stained through). Small edge tears,slightly chipped edges and rounded corners. Verso is washed with ochre. Paper debris from previous attachment and some old repairs. Edge debris under inlay.

  Treatment details

  Lifted by slitting inlay with a scalpel. Debris removed using a poultice of Culminal (nonionic cellulose ether). Adhesive residue removed with cotton wool swabs dampened with warm water. Small tears supported with Japanese tissue toned with Winsor and Newton artist's watercolours (organic,inorganic pigments,gum arabic), and Culminal adhesive (nonionic cellulose ether). Humidified over capillary matting and Gore-Tex in a chamber. Pressed between felts. Inlaid into BM inlay paper with strips of Japanese tissue and Culminal adhesive (nonionic cellulose ether). Pressed.

  Object mounted into a Royal overthrow of 6ply Heritage 100% Cotton Museum Board with a backboard of 4ply Heritage 100% Cotton Museum Board and hinged in using archival framing tape adhered with water.

  About these records 

• Acquisition name

  • Purchased from: William Smith, the printseller
  • Previous owner/ex-collection: John Sheepshanks (L.2333)

• Department

  Prints & Drawings

• Registration number

  S.5521