print
- Museum number
- Sheepshanks.5528
- Description
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Distant view with a mossy branch at right, and a winding road; first state before drypoint
Etching, printed in dark-brown ink on ochre-tinted paper, brushed with brown bodycolour and touched with brown and blue watercolour
- Production date
- 1610-1638 (circa)
- Dimensions
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Height: 125 millimetres
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Width: 180 millimetres
- Curator's comments
- For Segers' use of hand-colouring see S. Dackerman, 'Painted Prints: the Revelation of Color in North Renaissance and Baroque Engravings, Etchings and Woodcuts', exh.cat. Baltimore and Saint Louis, Pennsylvania State UP, 2002, cat.nos.55-56.
Recent lit: Huigen Leeflang and Pieter Roelofs, Hercules Segers (Amsterdam: Rijksmuseum/New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2016): p. 201, 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.5528
- Additional IDs
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Other BM number: S.5528
