Distant View with a Road and Mossy Branches, by Hercules Segers, c. 1622 - c. 1625
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Distant View with a Road and Mossy Branches

Also titled Vergezicht met een weg en bemoste takken

Hercules Segers (Haarlem, ca. –ca.)

c. 1622 - c. 1625

Medium
paint (coating), cotton (textile)
Classification
print
Dimensions
height 146 mm x width 196 mm (trimmed outside the printed surface; margins visible on all sides; this has been overpainted on left and top)
Museum
Rijksmuseum
Rights
Public Domain Mark, 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 Rijksmuseum

About this work

The colouration of this counterproof on cotton probably remained unfinished. At the bottom the print is priced at 3 stivers (1 stiver was a small Dutch coin equal to one twentieth of a guilder) in 17th-century handwriting.