# Enclosed Valley, in 17th-century Netherlands

Hercules Seghers painted this in about 1623–30, aged about 34. It is now at the Cleveland Museum of Art.

From the museum's label:

> To make his dreamy and mysterious landscapes, Hercules Seghers combined a number of etching and coloring techniques in order to make prints that met his expressive ends, and which he considered printed paintings.

_Text from the Cleveland Museum of Art._

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## The work

- Date: c. 1623–30
- Medium: etching on cloth, hand colored with watercolor
- Dimensions: Platemark: 10.7 x 19 cm (4 3/16 x 7 1/2 in.)
- Type: Print
- Courtesy of the Cleveland Museum of Art, 1951.349
- Licence: CC0 1.0

## The artist

[Hercules Seghers](https://www.ochreeditions.com/artists/hercules-seghers), Dutch, 1589/90–c. 1638

1 works in the collection.

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