Item Summary

Descriptive Information

Title
Witches in a hay loft.
Call Number
D North 52/GC112/Box 20/Normal/Prints/Titles V-Z GA 2014.00560
Identifier
ark:/88435/rj430c655
Publisher
[s.l.] : [s.n.], n.d.
Language
No linguistic content
Date Created
1756-1827
Extent
1 item ; sheet 23 x 32.2 cm.
Source Acquisition
Gift of Dickson Q. Brown, Princeton University Class of 1895.
References
Grego II, p. 265
No Tegg number.
See additional copy in call number R1807.51q
Rights Statement
No Known Copyright
Notes
Medium: Etchings, Hand coloring
Depiction: Two witches with broomsticks, red cloaks, and steeple-crowned hats are seated at a cauldron, conjuring up hobgoblins and other strange monsters, a rustic who has ascended by a ladder is paralyzed by the spectacle.
Signed in plate, lower left: "Woodward delin.".
Signed in plate, lower right: "Rowlandson scul.".

Discovery Information

Subject
Witches—Caricatures and cartoons
Witchcraft—Caricatures and cartoons
Demonology—Caricatures and cartoons
Monsters—Caricatures and cartoons
Liberty caps (Headgear)—Caricatures and cartoons
Europe—History—19th century—Caricatures and cartoons
Political cartoons—Great Britain—19th century
Comets—1807—Caricatures and cartoons
Symbolism in art
Caricature

Physical Characteristics

File Count
1

Institutional Information

Collection
Selections from the Graphic Arts Collection
IIIF Manifest URL

https://figgy.princeton.edu/concern/scanned_resources/6a5ac318-dff3-46aa-8192-6304e8f981c7/manifest