"Before Segers began touching up his prints with the brush, he had used hand-tinted papers on which to print his etchings.. .By varying the tints he was able to clarify the relation of successive planes to each other. But spatial clarity was not enough. What mattered more to Segers was bringing out the structure of the landscape.. ..he goes especially far in specifying, with the brush [in the etching] the particularities of the terrain."
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Quote by K.G. Boon in 'Introduction' of Hercules Segers: The Complete Etchings, E. Haverkamp Begemann, Springer 2013 p. 5.
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