Public Domain Art
Landscape with a Plateau, a River in the Distance, c. 1622 - c. 1625, by Hercules Segers, etching, public domain

Landscape with a Plateau, a River in the Distance — History & Analysis

Hercules Segers

Over an impression of the first plate in black (RP-P-H-OB-799), Segers used a second plate to print the pale yellow highlights.

This may be the earliest example of what is called printing in register.

The blue prepared paper makes the scene look like a nocturnal landscape over which an invisible moon casts its light.

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