Hesbeen

Roelant Roghman

1601 to 1650

Hesbeen by Roelant Roghman

Medium

etching on laid paper

Dimensions

sheet (trimmed to plate mark): 12.8 x 20.4 cm (5 1/16 x 8 1/16 in.)

Classification

Print

Department

CG-E

Museum

National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.

Credit

Ailsa Mellon Bruce Fund

Accession Number

1988.32.1

Art Historical Context

**Hesbeen** is a captivating etching by the Dutch artist Roelanthman, created sometime between 1601 and 1650 during the height of the Dutch Golden Age. Roghman, renowned for his intricate landscape prints, captures the essence of rural Dutch scenery on laid paper—a traditional support prized for its textured surface that enhances the fine lines of etching. Measuring just 12.8 x 20.4 cm, this intimate sheet (trimmed to the mark) invites close viewing, revealing the meticulous detail possible through the etching technique, where acid bites into a metal plate to produce precise, tonal effects. A...

About the Artist

Roelant Roghman

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