The method of printing with three wooden blocks produces painterly prints. But Hercules Segers first applied a layer of paint to his papers or fabrics for his smooth compositions of skies, horizons and foregrounds, and then printed on to them, in a very effective and painterly manner.


Introduction to the Academy of Painting, or the Visible World (1678)

Samuel Dirksz van Hoogstraten Quotes

The method of printing with three wooden blocks produces painterly prints. But Hercules Segers first applied a layer of paint to his papers or...

The method of printing with three wooden blocks produces painterly prints. But Hercules Segers first applied a layer of paint to his papers or...

The method of printing with three wooden blocks produces painterly prints. But Hercules Segers first applied a layer of paint to his papers or...

The method of printing with three wooden blocks produces painterly prints. But Hercules Segers first applied a layer of paint to his papers or...