print
- Museum number
- Sheepshanks.5519
- Description
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River valley with a waterfall; second state with landscape burnished and added trial lines
Etching, printed in blue ink, with grey and brown watercolour
- Production date
- 1610-1638 (circa)
- Dimensions
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Height: 155 millimetres
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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.
- Location
- Not on display
- Exhibition history
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2012 Jan-May, BM, 'Hercules Segers'
- 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
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Other BM number: S.5519
