# Roman Ruins, a City in the Distance

- By: Hercules Segers (Haarlem, ca. –ca.)
- Date: c. 1615 - c. 1630
- Medium: paper
- Classification: print
- Dimensions: height 120 mm x width 203 mm (trimmed within the printed surface)
- Credit line: On loan from the City of Amsterdam
- Museum: [Rijksmuseum](https://www.rijksmuseum.nl/en/collection/object/RP-P-H-OB-858--1157f3075cecb6252da8f2fbf85ae689)
- Rights: [Public Domain Mark](http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/)
- Picture: https://iiif.micr.io/rBfBL/full/!1920,1080/0/default.jpg
- Who can see it: Kids profiles and older (museums give no ratings; placed by Invisible Network from the museum's own words)

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.