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Roman Ruins, a City in the Distance
Also titled Romeinse ruïnes met op de achtergrond een stad
Hercules Segers (Haarlem, ca. –ca.)
c. 1615 - c. 1630
- Medium
- paper
- Classification
- Dimensions
- height 120 mm x width 203 mm (trimmed within the printed surface)
- Museum
- Rijksmuseum
- Credit line
- On loan from the City of Amsterdam
- Rights
- Public Domain Mark, as the museum states it.
- Who can see it
- Kids profiles and older: it shows nature, places, still life or a children's book. How works are placed
About this work
Segers etched two plates for this print. One was a tone plate with fine crosshatching, which he printed in a greyish blue. The other had the depiction of the ruins and the city, which he printed in black over the tone.
