print;
broadside
- Museum number
- 1880,0710.574
- Title
- Object: Sih, wie die Teüfflich hexen rott....
- Description
-
A broadside on witchcraft; with an etching showing a nocturnal scene of a Witches' Sabbath, with a cave and witches sitting and dancing in circles, in the circles' centres a skull on which a candle is burning, with devils guiding the newcomers, and in the sky witches riding on sticks or demons; with engraved text in four columns. (n.p.: ca.1630)
- Production date
- 1630 (circa)
- Dimensions
-
Height: 235 millimetres
-
Width: 279 millimetres
- Curator's comments
- This broadside is based on an engraving by Nicolaes de Clerck (after Jacques de Gheyn II).
The text of this sheet is recorded in Johannes Praetorius's 'Blockes-Berges Verrichtung' (Leipzig, 1668).
- Location
- Not on display
- Exhibition history
-
2014-15 Sept - Jan.London, BM, Witches and Wicked Bodies
- Acquisition date
- 1880
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Registration number
- 1880,0710.574
