The Witch
Print
1471-1528 (made)
1471-1528 (made)
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Engraving print on paper; inscribed with the artist's monogram with the D reversed. A witch sits backwards on a leaping goat. She clutches one of its horns in one hand and a broomstick or spindle in the other. Her hair flies out behind her and the stones of a hailstorm rain down towards her from the upper right. Below her four putti disport themselves, the arrangement of their bodies forming a ring shape with the goat: one carries an alchemist's pot, to use as her cauldron; another holds a thorn apple plant, an ingredient with magical properties; and a third with his bottom pointed towards the viewer is breaking wind.
Object details
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Object type | |
Title | The Witch (popular title) |
Materials and techniques | Engraving |
Brief description | The Witch; engraving by Albrecht Dürer |
Physical description | Engraving print on paper; inscribed with the artist's monogram with the D reversed. A witch sits backwards on a leaping goat. She clutches one of its horns in one hand and a broomstick or spindle in the other. Her hair flies out behind her and the stones of a hailstorm rain down towards her from the upper right. Below her four putti disport themselves, the arrangement of their bodies forming a ring shape with the goat: one carries an alchemist's pot, to use as her cauldron; another holds a thorn apple plant, an ingredient with magical properties; and a third with his bottom pointed towards the viewer is breaking wind. |
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Marks and inscriptions | AD (Signed with monogram.) |
Associated object | E.4628-1910 (Copy) |
Other number | B.67 |
Collection | |
Accession number | E.628-1940 |
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Record created | June 30, 2009 |
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