Village Road, plate fourteen 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: 10 × 15.7 cm (3 15/16 × 6 3/16 in.); Plate: 10.3 × 15.8 cm (4 1/16 × 6 1/4 in.); Sheet: 11.5 × 17.3 cm (4 9/16 × 6 13/16 in.)
Classification
etching
Department
Prints and Drawings
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Accession Number
129652
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...