Two Trees

This is the only known impression of this aquatint of two trees set against an atmospheric sky. Segers printed the etching in brown ink on paper prepared with pink and broad brushstrokes of blue bodycolor. The picture features two trees: one fully grown on the right, the other pollarded, with wispy shoots. The two trees are depicted in different ways: the one on the right is shown in meticulous detail, the other is drawn with thicker lines, so that it seems to be nearer. They are depicted at either side of the page and cropped: it was unusual in seventeenth-century art not to show the subject... Mehr ...