3770 – Witch and Mandrake picture

Physical description:

Reproduction colour image. Quite faint colours mostly greys, whites, creams and blacks.

Museum classification:

Mandrakes

Size:

27cm x 20cm

Information:

Taken from the British Museum website (they own a soft ground etching version of this image):

Allegorical scene with crouching, cloaked grotesque witch, her breasts bare, coaxing out mandrake root, seen as a tiny figure; with bird in dark, cloudy sky behind; an illustration to Ben Jonson's 'Masque of Queens'

Resource:

Object

Materials:

Paper and ink

Copyright ownership:

spiffing_prints

Taken from the British Museum website (they own a soft ground etching version of this image):

Allegorical scene with crouching, cloaked grotesque witch, her breasts bare, coaxing out mandrake root, seen as a tiny figure; with bird in dark, cloudy sky behind; an illustration to Ben Jonson's 'Masque of Queens'