Enclosed Valley
Hercules Seghers (Dutch, 1589/90–c. 1638)
c. 1623–30
- Medium
- etching on cloth, hand colored with watercolor
- Classification
- Dimensions
- Platemark: 10.7 x 19 cm (4 3/16 x 7 1/2 in.)
- Culture
- Netherlands
- Museum
- Cleveland Museum of Art, Prints
- Credit line
- John L. Severance Fund
- Rights
- Public domain (CC0), as the museum states it.
- Who can see it
- Little Ones profiles and older: it shows gentle subjects for the very young. How works are placed
View at the Cleveland Museum of Art
About this work
To make his dreamy and mysterious landscapes, Hercules Seghers combined a number of etching and coloring techniques in order to make prints that met his expressive ends, and which he considered printed paintings. He created 54 etchings, but instead of producing standardized editions printed in black ink on white paper, he made each impression a unique and individualized work of art. He often printed in colored inks on paper prepared with a colored ground, or on cloth (as here), and then painted the printed impression by hand. Cleveland’s etching is one of only ten known impressions of the first state of this print.
