1st 2015 136pp Van de Wiele Publishing 4to paperback. Illustrated in colour throughout. Slight bend to top right corner else NM.
 
Witchcraft images in the Low Countries between 1450 and 1700. In 1565, the Antwerp printmaker Hieronymus Cock issued two prints that have determined the image we have of witches even today. The prints were designed by Pieter Bruegel the Elder. For many generations artists drew their inspiration from Bruegel's example by repeating and adding to it. Witches as we know them, flying out of their chimneys on broomsticks while a cauldron bubbles in the hearth and a cat warms itself by the fire, are unthinkable without Bruegel's prototypes.
 
This catalogue offers rare archival documents and manuscripts with the earliest depictions of witches, and highly detailed paintings of their Sabbaths by Frans Francken and David Teniers the Younger.