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The sorceress [print] / Jan V. Velde fecit.

Accession number: 
PML 145850.40
Author: 
Velde, Jan van de, 1593-1641.
Published: 
[Netherlands? : s.n.], 1626.
Description: 
1 print : engraving ; 200 x 287 mm
Credit: 
Bequest of Gordon N. Ray, 1987.
Notes: 

Title devised by cataloger.
Signed and dated at lower right: Jan V. Velde fecit. 1626.
Lettered with Latin verses, three columns of two verse each: "Quantum malorum ... æternum dolet / I.A.B.".
Mounted as item 40 into an album of collected prints, broadsides, drawings, and miscellaneous single sheet items, assembled by former owner Joseph Ames and entitled "Emblematical and satirical prints on persons and professions" (PML 145850).
Library's copy closely trimmed to image with loss of text.

Provenance: 
From the library of Gordon N. Ray.
Summary: 

Print shows a nocturnal scene with a young witch at right, standing before a fire with a goat at her side; she is wielding a short wand and pouring powder from a horn into a cauldron as she conjures a crowd of grotesque and fantastical demons at left, one of whom, in the foreground, smokes a pipe over a deck of cards.

Classification: 
Print
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Department: 
Printed Books