# Enclosed Valley, in Prints of the 17th century

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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