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Rocky Landscape, a Church Tower in the Distance
Hercules Segers (Netherlandish, 1589 or 1590–after 1635, about 1638)
about 1630
Medium/Technique
Etching and light scratching printed in blue ink on toned paper with brush-applied colors
Dimensions
Sheet: 5 3/16 x 7 3/8 in. (13.3 x 18.7 cm)
Credit Line
Kate D. Griswold Fund, Ernest Wadsworth Longfellow Fund, Gift of Jessie H. Wilkinson—Jessie H. Wilkinson Fund, Katherine E. Bullard Fund in memory of Francis Bullard, and M. and M. Karolik Fund
Accession Number1973.208
NOT ON VIEW
CollectionsEurope, Prints and Drawings
ClassificationsPrints
Catalogue Raisonné
Haverkamp-Begemann 7, iib; Springer 14b
DescriptionGerman title: Die Felsige Landschaft mit einem Kirchturm
ProvenanceFriedrich August II (b. 1797 - d. 1854), King of Saxony (Lugt 971); by inheritance through the family to Johann-Georg of Saxony (b. 1868 - d. 1938), Freiburg im Breisgau. Felix Somary (b. 1881 - d. 1956), Vienna, Zurich, and Washington, DC. 1973, sold by R. M. Light and Co., Boston, to the MFA. (Accession Date: May 9, 1973)