1title: Saul and the Witch of Endor by Jacob Cornelisz van Oostsanen
artist: Jacob Cornelisz van Oostsanen
date: 1526
medium: Technique oil oak panel
dimensions: Size cm height=85.5 width=122.8
current location: Institution:Rijksmuseum Amsterdam
source: Geheugen van Nederland : [link Home] : [link Info]
credit: Geheugen van Nederland : Home : Info
description:
To the left, inside a magic circle, the witch, sitting on a throne of owls, practices her witchcraft. A sater is holding a book with magic spells. To the right four women an two goats are tasting their brewage. To their right a devil with a hurdy-gurdy is standing. Witches and devils are flying through the air. To the left King Saul is standing before the witch's house. In the background the ruins of an arch is depicted through which the Prophet Samuel and Saul's suicide can be seen.license:Public domain
2title: Parmigianino - witches' sabbath
artist: Parmigianino
date: 1530
source: Erotica Universalis by Gilles Néret, p. 106
credit: Erotica Universalis by Gilles Néret, p. 106
license:Public domain
3title: The Witch1884
artist:
Holt, Ardern; T. T.; E. Meyerstein, Litho.date: March 1884
source: Fancy Dresses Described or What to Wear at Fancy Balls; Fourth edition. P. 153)
credit: Fancy Dresses Described or What to Wear at Fancy Balls; Fourth edition. P. 153)
description: witch. HUBBARD, MOTHER, Mother Bunch, Mother Shipton, Nance Redfern, Dame Trot, Enchantress, witch, and Fairy Godmother are all dressed much alike. Mother Hubbard in a quilted petticoat touching the ground ; a chintz tunic open in front, bunched up ; muslin apron ; low velvet bodice with deep point, laced across the front ; sleeves to elbow with ruffles ; muslin kerchief, close ruff ; spectacles, mittens, and stick ; a lace cap, and a high-pointed velvet sugar-loaf hat with peacock's feather over it ; high-heeled shoes with rosettes ; a small white dog ; the hair powdered or not. Or blue satin petticoat, cerise moiré skirt, and laced body, looped up. Coat, shoes, loaf of bread bottles of white wine and red, and bone &c. ; highlow shoes, hair poudré, with small steeple-crowned hat, lace apron and kerchief, white Pomeranian dog, crook, &c. ; ornaments, diamonds. Mother Bunch is always poudré ; the same in other respects. Dame Trot wears pointed hat not so high. Nance Redfern, Mother Shipton, and the Old Woman who Swept the Sky, being witches, carry a broom, and on the skirt are toads, cats, serpents, curlews, frogs, bats, and lizards in black velvet ; a serpent twisted round the crown of hat, and owl in front, a black cat on shoulder. Sometimes a scarlet cloak is attached to the shoulders, and the velvet bodice is high with pendant sleeves.
license:Public domain
4title: 31 The Witch
artist: Albrecht Dürer
date: 1501
current location: Institution:British Museum
source: [link British Museum]
credit: British Museum
license:Public domain
5title: The Witches' Sabbath MET DP826750
artist:
date: 1510
medium: Chiaroscuro woodcut in two blocks, printed in gray and black
dimensions: Sheet: 15 5/16 × 10 5/8 in. (38.9 × 27 cm)
current location: Institution:Metropolitan Museum of Art
source: link Template:TheMet
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6title: Witch's Sabbath (Sabbat) MET DP808094
artist: Auguste Rodin
date: circa 1890
medium: Watercolor, gouache, and graphite on paper
dimensions: image: 12 13/16 x 9 3/4 in. (32.6 x 24.8 cm) mount: 14 1/16 x 11 1/8 in. (35.7 x 28.2 cm)
current location: Institution:Metropolitan Museum of Art
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7title: The Witch MET DP815536
artist: Albrecht Dürer
date: circa 1500
medium: Engraving
dimensions: Sheet: 4 5/8 × 2 13/16 in. (11.7 × 7.2 cm)
current location: Institution:Metropolitan Museum of Art
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8title: The Witches' Sabbath MET DP826749
artist:
date: 1510
medium: Chiaroscuro woodcut in two blocks, printed in gray and black
dimensions: Sheet: 14 15/16 × 10 5/16 in. (37.9 × 26.2 cm)
current location: Institution:Metropolitan Museum of Art
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9title: Witch of Endor MET DP808346
artist: Ary Scheffer
date: 19th century
medium: Pen and brown ink, brush and gray wash, graphite
dimensions: 4 9/16 x 3 9/16 in. (11.6 x 9.1 cm)
current location: Institution:Metropolitan Museum of Art
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title: Witches' Sabbath MET DP826629
artist:
date: 1510
medium: Woodcut
dimensions: Sheet: 14 7/16 × 10 3/16 in. (36.6 × 25.9 cm)
current location: Institution:Metropolitan Museum of Art
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