Landscape with Hewed Trees, plate seventeen after Pictures of Farms, Country Houses and Rustic Villages (Praediorum villarum et rusticarum casularum icones)
Medium
Etching in black on ivory laid paper
Dimensions
Image/plate: 10.1 × 15 cm (4 × 5 15/16 in.); Sheet: 11.5 × 17.2 cm (4 9/16 × 6 13/16 in.)
Classification
etching
Department
Prints and Drawings
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Accession Number
129655
About the Artist
Claes Jansz. Visscher, II · 1587–1652
Claes Janszoon Visscher II (1587–1652) was one of the most prolific and commercially astute figures of the Dutch Golden Age print world — a draughtsman, etcher, mapmaker, and publisher whose Amsterdam workshop became one of the largest of its kind in Europe. Born into a family already engaged in the print trade, Visscher learned etching and engraving directly from his father, Claes Jansz. Visscher...