139 – Witch picture
- Physical description:
- Reproduction of a 16th century woodcut showing three witches hanging on the gallows, and a witch holding her ferret familiar, with toads and other familiars in the foreground.
- Museum classification:
- Persecution
- Size:
- 270 x 335mm
- Information:
Reproduction of the title page of a pamphlet on the third Chelmsford witch trial (1589) - 'The Apprehension and Confession of Three Notorious Witches Arraigned and by Justice Condemned and Executed at Chelmsford'. The three women executed were Joan Prentice, Joan Cony and Joan Upney. The only surviving copy of the pamphlet is in Lambeth Palace Library.
- Resource:
- Picture
- Materials:
- Paper
- Copyright ownership:
- Copyright to The Museum of Witchcraft Ltd.
Reproduction of the title page of a pamphlet on the third Chelmsford witch trial (1589) - 'The Apprehension and Confession of Three Notorious Witches Arraigned and by Justice Condemned and Executed at Chelmsford'. The three women executed were Joan Prentice, Joan Cony and Joan Upney. The only surviving copy of the pamphlet is in Lambeth Palace Library.