print

Please enable JavaScript in your web browser to get the best experience.

Object Type
Museum number: Sheepshanks.5519
Description: River valley with a waterfall; second state with landscape burnished and added trial lines Etching, printed in blue ink, with grey and brown watercolour
Producer name
School/style
Production date: 1610-1638 (circa)
Materials
Technique: etching; hand-coloured
Dimensions: Height: 155 millimetres; Width: 185 millimetres
Curator's comments: For an impression of first state see S.5518. It is not clear whether the branches and clouds were added by Segers or by a later hand. Literature: J. Rowlands, 'Hercules Segers', New York, 1979, no. 57; Recent lit: Huigen Leeflang and Pieter Roelofs, Hercules Segers (Amsterdam: Rijksmuseum/New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2016): p. 192, repr.
Bibliographic references: Hollstein / Dutch and Flemish etchings, engravings and woodcuts c.1450-1700 (22.II.g); Haverkamp Begemann 1973 / Hercules Segers: The complete etchings (22.II.g)
Location: Not on display
Exhibition history: 2012 Jan-May, BM, 'Hercules Segers'
Subjects
Acquisition name
Previous owner
Acquisition date: 1836
Acquisition notes: For the history of the acquisition of the Sheepshanks collection, please see Sheepshanks.1
Department: Prints and Drawings
Registration number: Sheepshanks.5519
Additional IDs: Other BM number: S.5519
Conservation

Free entry