Wizards and witches casting spells and raising ghosts. Etching.

Date:
[between 1680 and 1720?]
Reference:
47023i
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Description

About six scenes in one landscape, at night. Left, a man standing in a circle marked with magic signs holds out his hands to a terrified king and queen (?). Centre foreground, a philosopher in a library communes with a man in chains (a lunatic?), and a swordsman fights against two skeletons wielding bones. Right foreground and background, scenes of witchcraft, communing with devils, a witch riding on a broomstick, and an army in mid-battle

Publication/Creation

[Germany] : [publisher not identified], [between 1680 and 1720?]

Physical description

1 print : etching ; image and border 18 x 26.7 cm

Lettering

Das abscheuliche Gespenst Lettering means "The abominable ghost". Many of the figures are marked with a letter (letters from A to K), but the key is not present

References note

Information about this print may exist in: Georg Conrad Horst, Zauber-Bibliothek: oder von Zauberei, Theurgie und Mantik, Zauberern, Hexen und Hexenprocessen, Dämonen, Gespenstern und Geistererscheinungen; zur Beförderung einer rein-geschichtlichen, von Aberglauben und Unglauben freien Beurtheilung dieser Gegenstände, Mainz: Kupferberg, 1821- (to be confirmed)

Reference

Wellcome Collection 47023i

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