# Still Life with Books

- By: Hercules Segers (Haarlem, ca. –ca.)
- Date: c. 1618 - c. 1622
- Medium: paint (coating), cotton (textile)
- Classification: print
- Dimensions: height 93 mm x width 205 mm (trimmed outside 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-867--d39f82eba26657049fe0213ce0992e2f)
- Rights: [Public Domain Mark](http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/)
- Picture: https://iiif.micr.io/uEwMX/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)

While Segers’ stack of books looks unassuming enough, it is entirely original, and may even be the earliest still life in European graphic art. While still lifes frequently feature in 17th-century paintings, they are rarely found in black-and-white (in prints).