'Rocky Landscape with Man Walking', by Hercules Segers. etching.

Remarkable image for its time. Etching printed in blue on pink paper then worked up by brush in light blue, brown, and red.

 

Hercules Pieterszoon Seghers or Segers, c. 1589– c. 1638, innovative Dutch painter and printmaker.

 

Taken from ‘Landscape Etchings by the Dutch Masters of the 17th century’, 1st ed. 1979, publ. Gordon Fraser Ltd., London, edited by Irene de Groot.

 

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