Antique Prints of Witches and Devils

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The prints are in good condition unless otherwise mentioned.

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"Ein Opfer des Irrwahns" (A victim of witch mania)

Wood engraving after the painting by Franz Reiff.

Published in a German periodical

Very good condition. Reverse side has unrelated text print.
Light natural age toning. Horizontal centerfold.

31,7 X 23 cm (ca. 12.5 x 9")

$ 60.00 (Please look for discount at top of this page)

Order Nr. WITCHES253144


"A Charge of Witchcraft"

Wood engraving. by H.G. Glindoni

London, 1881

Only minimal traces of age and use.

13,2 x 23,4 cm (ca. 5.2 x 9.2")

$ 60.00 (Please look for discount at top of this page)

Order Nr. WITCHES253138


Halloween
Some Merry friendly country folks
Together did convene,
To burn their nits and pon their stocks

Fine steel engraving by E. Scriven after J.M. Wright ca 1840.

11.3 x 15.7 cm ( 4.4 x 6.2 ")

$ 45.00

Order Nr. WITCHES235056


Title: No title

Showing: Satan flying through the air

Engraver: Francesco Bartolozzi (1727-1815)

After Painting by: Thomas Stothard (1755-1834)

Published as illustration in: ãParadise Lost" by John Milton (1608-1674)

Publisher: John Jeffryes, Ludgate Hill

Print technique: Stipple engraving / etching

Dated: imprinted 1793

Published 1793 (Jeffreys' first edition)

Measurements: Image: 12,2 x 25,4 cm - Plate marks: 24,8 x 38 cm - Sheet: 53 x 39 cm

Condition: Light age toning, left plate mark was broken. Former owner has supported this by a strip of strong paper from behind (please see scan). Minor traces of age and use, such as some faint spots outside image.

$ 120.00 minus 40% Discount = $72.00

Order Nr. WITCHESDEMONS 255636

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Title: No title

Showing: Winged Satan

Engraver: Francesco Bartolozzi (1727-1815)

After Painting by: Thomas Stothard (1755-1834)

Published as illustration in: ãParadise Lost" by John Milton (1608-1674)

Publisher: John Jeffryes, Ludgate Hill

Print technique: Stipple engraving / etching

Dated: imprinted 1792

Published 1793 (Jeffreys' first edition)

Measurements: Image: 10,5 x 21 cm - Plate marks: 24,8 x 37,8 cm - Sheet: 53 x 39 cm

Condition: Light age toning, one tear on left reaching barely into plate mark, far away from image. Minor traces of age and use.

$ 120.00 minus 40% Discount = $72.00

Order Nr. WITCHESDEMONS255637


Title: No title.

Showing: Satan in the center, head in profile to right, the rest seated (Description text by The British Library)

Engraver: Francesco Bartolozzi (1727-1815)

After Painting by: Thomas Stothard (1755-1834)

Published as illustration in: ãParadise Lost" by John Milton (1608-1674)

Publisher: John Jeffryes, Ludgate Hill

Print technique: Stipple engraving / etching

Dated: imprinted 1792 (Jeffreys' first edition)

Published 1793

Measurements: Image: 12,5 x 27,2 cm - Plate marks: 24,8 x 28 cm - Sheet: 53 x 39 cm

Condition: Light age toning. Minor traces of age and use, such as some faint spots outside image.

$ 160.00 minus 40% Discount = $96.00

Order Nr. WITCHESDEMONS255638


No title

Showing: Satan with a torch - The Fall of the Damned

Engraver and Designer: Carl Wilhelm Kolbe the Elder (1759-1835)

Type of print: Copper etching

Signatur: Reversed - C. C.W. Kolbe inv. & fec.

Published: Ca. 1800

Measurements: Sheet: 45 x 33,5 cm (Image more or less = sheet size)

Condition: Sad! Very poor condition. Flaws all over. Creases, spots tears, paper repairs.

We are trying to document all of this as best we can. The etching itself, however, is in quite good condition. Faults are essentially in surrounding paper.

The Albertina in Vienna has a letter edition of this etching with trees surrounding the scene.

$ 100.00 minus 40% Discount = $60.00

Order Nr. WITCHESDEMONS255635

Reverse side:


Title: "Uriel and Satan"

Showing: Satan circumflying menacingly Uriel. Uriel meaning ãThe Light of God" in Hebrew.

Engraver: Francesco Bartolozzi (1727-1815)

After Painting by: Thomas Stothard (1755-1834)

Published as illustration in: ãParadise Lost" by John Milton (1608-1674)

Publisher: John Jeffryes, Ludgate Hill

Print technique: Stipple engraving / etching

Dated: imprinted 1795

Published 1795

Measurements: Image: 32,4 x 26,6 cm - Sheet: 47,5 x 36 cm

Condition: Light age toning. Minor traces of age and use, such as some faint spoting outside image.

$ $ 160.00 minus 40% Discount = $96.00

Order Nr. WITCHESDEMONS236657


ãArivee au Sabat". A witch arrives at midnight with her paraphernalia for a witch's sabat.

Copper etching by Jacques Aliamet (1726 - 1788) after the paintning by David Teniers jr. (1610 - 1690). Paris ca. 1800.

This beautiful and richly decored witch-engraving has wide margins with one repaired tear in the right margin.. Some spots in upper margin. Otherwise in very good condition with a light pleasant age patina.

Page size: 48.3 x 35.8 cm (19 x 14")

$ 850.00

Order Nr. WITCHESALCHEMISTS0056


"The Oracle"

Wood engraving made after the painting by J. W. Waterhouse.
Published 1895. Reverse side is printed with unrelated text.

13.5 x 23 cm ( 5.3 x 9 ")

$ 35.00

Order Nr. WITCHESALCHEMIST252253


"Dorfhexe" (Village witch)

Zincograph. Ca. 1900

After the painting by Ludwig Knaus (1829-1910)

Very good condition

15,7 x 13,8 cm (ca. 6.2 x 5.4")

$ 35,00

Order Nr. WITCHES251648


"Hexensalbung" (Anointment of a witch)

Wood engraving. After the painting by L. von Flesch-Brunningen

Published in a German periodical ("ModernArt").

Berlin, ca. 1900

Very good condition. Reverse side has unrelated text print

29,3 x 23 cm (ca. 11.5 x 9")

$ 60.00 (Please look for discount at top of this page)

Order Nr. WITCHES253146


"Du sollst so dünn gefoltert werden, dass die Sonne durch dich scheint"

(We shall torture you thin, until the sun shines through you)

Wood engraving

Very good condition. Right margin is a bit dirty - well away from image.

18,7 x 23,7 cm (ca. 7.4 x 9.3")

$ 75.00 (Please look for discount at top of this page)

Order Nr. WITCHES253140


"Der Alchemist"

Wood engraving after a copper engraving in the Germanistischen Nationalmuseum in Nuerenberg.
Published 1902. Horizontal centerfold to fit original book size.

28.5 x 22.5 cm ( 11.2 x 8.8 ")

Order Nr. WITCHESALCHEMISTS245179 SOLD


Hudibras beats Sidrophel and his man Whacum.

Copper engraving by Thomas Cook after W. Hogarth.
Published by G & J. Robinson in London. Dated 1802.

Notice the owl on the skeleton and in the lower left corner the baby produced in a retort. There are instruments such as a
Jacobs baton ad a St. Barbara light. The alchemist and his assistant are frightened by the knight entering their domain.

Fine, clean image on strong paper.

Image size without title: 23.5 x 34 cm ( 9.2 x 13.3 ")

Order Nr. WITCHESDEVILSALCHEMISTS0049 SOLD


" Cup -Tossing " (Also known as reading tea leaves)

Fine steel engraving by C.W. Sharpe after N.J. Crowley ca 1840.

Begger women and witches made a specialty of reading tea leaves to tell especially young girls the future
about finding a husband and getting married.

17.5 x 22 cm ( 6.8 x 8.6 ")

Order nr. WITCH234693 SOLD


Der Hexentanzplatz im Harz, vom Hirschgrund aus gesehen

"Der Hexentanzplatz im Harz, vom Hirschgrund aus gesehen"
( place where the witches dance in the Harz mountains )

Wood engraving after a photograph. Published ca 1880 in a German illustrated work.
Reverse side is printed.

Image: 24 x 17 cm ( 9.4 x 6.6 ")

Order Nr. NIEDERSACHSEN242874 SOLD


"Die Verbrennung des der Hexerei angeschuldigten Leperos Jose Maria Bonilla und seines Weibes Diega zu San Jacobo in Mexiko"

A Lepero is a Mexican of the lower classes who often is a begger.

(The burning of Jose Maria Bonilla and his wife Diega after being accused and convicted of witchcraft).

San Jacobo is nowadays incorporated in Ciudad Valles in the State of San Luis Potosi in Central Mexico.

Wood engraving. Light general age toning. There is a crease in upper left corner not touching the image. Reverse side has related and unrelated text print.

Published in a German periodical ca. 1880

31,3 x 22 cm (ca. 12.3 x 8.7")

$ 50.00

Order Nr. WITCHES251649


"Le recherche des mines par la Bagnette divinatoire"
( Using a divining rod (Wuenchelrute, dowser, bachetta de rabdomante) to mine for metal)

Wood engraving published 1874 after a woodcut from 1536.
Below the image is an article ( in French ) about the divining rod and the occult that continues n the reverse side.

12.5 x 13.5 cm ( 4.9 x 5.3 ")

Order Nr. MINING240460 SOLD


ãL'Alchimiste"

Copper etching by Jacques Louis Peree (1748 - 1825) after David Tenier jr. (1610 - 1690)

Clean. Very wide margins. A few insignificant wrinkles.

23.2 x 32 cm (9.1 x 12.6").

Order Nr. WITCHESALCHEMISTS0058SOLD


ãPerspectivische Vorstellung des beruehmten Brocken older Bloks-Bergs mit der jenigen Gegend, so weit solche von dem, der auf der Spitze des Berges stehet gesehen werden kan". Panoramic view of the Brocken in the Harz mountains which are located in Sachsen-Anhalt and Lower Saxony in Germany.

Copper etching, drawn in 1732, but published only in 1749 by Homann Heirs in Nuremberg. Pleasant hand coloring.

Legends have it that the Bloks-Berg has been a location for whichcraft and witches meetings. The mountain in this engraving shows a platform on top of it with two witches dancing their dance while six more witches are approaching the place riding through the air on their brooms.

The view is from the East westward. In the foreground Halberstadt, Derenburg, Wernigerode, Ilsenburg, Bad Harzburg, Vienenburg, Hornburg, Schlade, Clauthal-Zellerfeld, just to name a few places. This map is very detailed and shows every tiny village in the area.

Map is in very nice condition. The centerfold has been expertly restored. Ample margins.

47 x 56 cm (18.5 x 22").

Order Nr. WITCHES 0053SOLD


"Hexenverbrennung" ( Witchburning)

Wood engraving after the artist Ferdinand Leeke in Munich ca 1895.
Light age toning. Reverse side is printed. Horizontal centerfold.

Published in a German periodical. Ca. 1880

Very good condition

Image: 31 x 23 cm (ca. 12.2 x 9")

$ 60.00 (Please look for discount at top of this page)

Order Nr. WITCHES253142


Hexenschlaf
(Witches' Sleep)

Photogravure after a painting from Alb. Keller, published
in an illustrated work ca ca 1895.
Reverse side is printed. Horizontal centerfold.
Overall light age toning.

34.5 x 24 cm (13.6 x 9.4 ")

Order Nr. WITCHESDEVILSALCHEMISTS 0038

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"Die Hexe von Endor" (Endor: A fictional place)

Wood engraving by Kunz Meyer

Published in "Moderne Kunst", a German periodical

Very good condition

32,2 x 23 cm (12.7 x 9")

$ 50.00 minus 40% Discount = $ 30.00

Order Nr. WITCHES256029


Reverse side

Article in the German language with five wood engravings.

"Verhör" (Interrogation)

"Folterkammer" (Torture chamber)

"Hexenritt" (witch ride)

"Hexenprobe" (Trying for being a witch)

"Hexenverbrennung" Witch burning at the stake

Wood engravings. Published in a German periodical. Ca. 1880

Full page size: 34 x 24 cm (ca. 13.4 x 9.5")

$ 70.00 (Please look for discount at top of this page)

Order Nr. WITCHES253139


"Witchcraft at Salem Village"

Wood engraving. Published in New York. Ca. 1880

The Salem, Massachusetts witch trials took place in 1692

13,7 x 19,8 cm (ca. 5.4 x 7.8")

Ver good condition

$ 50.00

Order Nr, WITCHES251647


"Der Regenstein im Harz"

Place known for witches in the Harz mountains.

Wood engraving after Rudolf Cronau ca 1880. Reverse side is printed.
Normal signs of age and use.

17.5 x 27 cm ( 6.8 x 10.6 ")

Order Nr.WITCH242881 SOLD


Auf dem Marienplatz in Munchen zu Ende des 15. Jahrhunderts.
( On the Marienplatz in Munich at the end of the 15th Century)

Wood engraving after K. Weigand from an illustrated work, 1897.
Vertical centerfold. Reverse side is printed. Overall light age toning.

23.8 x 36.5 cm ( 9.4 x 14.4 ")

$ 90.00

Order Nr. WITCHESDEVILSALCHEMISTS 0036


Der Liebestrank. ( Love Potion)

Wood engraving made from a photograph of a painting by Consuelo Fould ca 1895.
Reverse side is printed.

23.9 x 13.3 cm (9.4 x 5.2'')

$ 45.00

Order Nr. WITCHESALCHEMISTS0055


"Die Hexenwage in Oudewater in Holland"

Wood engraving by F. Bergen

With an article in the German language.

Published in a German periodical. 1891

Reverse side has related text print

17,7 x 26,4 cm (ca. 7 x 10.4")

$ 80.00 (Please look for discount at top of this page)

Order Nr. WITCHES253145


"Die ehemalige Hexenjagd zu Oudewater in Holland"

Former witch scale in Holland

Wood engraving by H. Merte.

Published in a German periodical. Ca. 1880

Very good condition

32,2 x 24 cm (ca. 12.7 x 9.5"

$ 125.00 (Please look for discount at top of this page)

Order Nr. WITCHES253141


"Gericht ueber Constance de Beverley" (Trial of Constnze de Beverley, accused of witchcraft)

Wood engraving after the painting by T.L. Rosenthal

Published in a German periodical. Ca. 1880

Light age toning of paper. Otherwise very good. Reverse side has unrelated text print.

Vetical centerfold.

31 x 49,8 cm (ca. 12.2 x 19.6")

$ 80.00 (Please look for discount at top of this page)

Order Nr. WITCHES253147


Die Hexe
(The Witch)

Photogravure after H. Uhlrich from a painting by Luke Fieldes.
Published in an illustrated work ca 1895.
Horizontal centerfold. Overall light age toning in margins.

45.3 x 30 cm ( 17.8 x 11.8 ")

$ 140.00

Order Nr. WITCHESDEVILSALCHEMISTS 0037 SOLD


"Hexensabbath" Witches sabbat

Wood engraving after the painting by Jose Benlliure y Gil (1855-1937)

Published in a German periodical. Berlin, ca. 1900

Very good condition. Reverse side is blank.

20,5 x 31 cm (ca. 8 x 12.2")

$ 80.00

Order Nr. WITCHES251650


The Witches Dance in the O Shanter.

Steel engraving by S. Smith after J.M. Wright ca 1850. Overall light age toning.

11.2 x 16.3 cm ( 4.4 x 6.4 ")

Order Nr. WITCHESDEVILSALCHEMISTS0047 SOLD


Grandpapa's Story or the Witches Frolic.

Copper etching by George Cruickshank ca 1850.
Left margin is very narrow.

12.5 x 10 cm ( 4.9 x 3.9 ")

$ 45.00

Order Nr. WITCHESDEVILSALCHEMISTS0044


A Lay of St. Nicolas

Copper etching by George Cruickshank ca 1850.

12.5 x 10 cm ( 4.9 x 3.9 ")

$ 60.00

Order Nr. WITCHESDEVILSALCHEMISTS0045


Mike Leary

Copper etching by George Cruickshank ca 1850.
Left margin is very narrow.

12.5 x 10 cm ( 4.9 x 3.9 ")

$ 60.00

Order Nr. WITCHESDEVILSALCHEMISTS0046


"Brocken-Gespenst"

Brocken is the highest mountain in the Harz mountains in Germany.

That's where, according to legend, during Walpurgis night (April 30 / May 1)

witches and devils dance all night

Wood engraving by Richard Bong.

Published in a German publication. Berlin, 1904

Light general age toning.

20 x 12,8 cm (ca. 7.9 x 5")

$ 30.00

Order Nr. WITCHES251646


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