# The Enclosed Valley

- By: Hercules Segers (Haarlem, ca. –ca.)
- Date: c. 1625 - c. 1630
- Medium: linen (material)
- Classification: print
- Dimensions: height 108 mm x width 194 mm (trimmed within the plate mark and within the printed surface on right and bottom)
- Credit line: Mr and Mrs De Bruijn-van der Leeuw Bequest, Muri, Switzerland
- Museum: [Rijksmuseum](https://www.rijksmuseum.nl/en/collection/object/RP-P-1961-869--0b22edda1e85a47705904d53503f3fc2)
- Rights: [Public Domain Mark](http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/)
- Picture: https://iiif.micr.io/Wwqwg/full/!1920,1080/0/default.jpg
- Who can see it: Little Ones profiles and older (museums give no ratings; placed by Invisible Network from the museum's own words)

The earliest impressions of this etching are on linen. By painting the foreground with brown paint and the background with grey or blue, Segers subsequently added a subtle colour perspective.