print
- Museum number
- 1850,0713.125
- Title
- Object: Depart pour le Sabat
- Description
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Ritual in an interior during the night; in the foreground on the left, a witch sitting at a table with demons and preparing a potion; in the background, a witch kneeling in front of a fireplace and pushing a naked woman towards the fire; after David Teniers the Younger. 1755
Etching
- Production date
- 1755
- Dimensions
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Height: 382 millimetres
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Width: 279 millimetres
- $Inscriptions
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- Curator's comments
- Advertised in 'Mercure', October 1755, along with its pair (see 1850,0713.126). The paintings by Teniers are lost.
Annotation in pencil on verso: 'Mr Arthur Kay (Edinburgh) has oil sketch in reverse (1938)'.
- Location
- Not on display
- Exhibition history
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2014-15 Sept - Jan: London BM Witches and Wicked Bodies
- Acquisition date
- 1850
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Registration number
- 1850,0713.125