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Landscape with a Steep Cliff, Small Version
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Landscape with a Steep Cliff, Small Version

Hercules Segers · c. 1622 - c. 1625 · lift-ground etching; pen; counterproof; paper; ink

From the collection of Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam. Free to download, adapt and use — no permission needed.

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Using another impression of the adjacent etching (RP-P-1910-2012), Segers made a counterproof: while the ink was still wet he printed it on another sheet of paper prepared with a bluish grey ground. The counterproof is the reverse image of the etching.

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Credit lineLandscape with a Steep Cliff, Small Version. c. 1622 - c. 1625. Hercules Segers. Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam. Public domain.

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