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Immediate dispatch from Somerset. Nice book in great condition. Pages in excellent condition. Plates bright and vivid. Hardcover. English. See images for condition.

About the book >.>.> Hercules Segers etcher and painter was one of the finest Dutch ar- tists of the seventeenth century. Yet out- side specialist circles he is still relatively unknown and the true nature of his orig- inality both in terms of his treatment of his subjects and of the techniques he evolved to achieve his effects has never received the attention it so richly de- serves. John Rowlands Deputy Keeper of Prints and Drawings in the British Museum has now revealed Segers’s unique contribution to European art in his Introduction to a splendid series of 40 colour and 35 black and white plates showing the full range of the ?uvre. For the benefit of the general reader Mr Rowlands opens up the hauntingly beautiful world of Segers’s strikingly evocative melancholic landscapes and he elaborates on the extraordinarily var- ied though often surprisingly straightforward innovative techniques the artist used to construct this world While underlining the many differ- ences between Segers and his fellow ar- tists who laid more stress on the accurate recording of nature Mr Rowlands also takes into account how Segers was influ- enced by contemporaries such as Goltzius. (SP)