A Witch Sailing to Aleppo [graphic] / Engraved by C. Turner.
1807
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Details
Title
A Witch Sailing to Aleppo [graphic] / Engraved by C. Turner.
Created/published
[S.l.] : [s.n.], 1807.
Description
1 print : mezzotint ; platemark 656 x 457 mm
Associated name
Turner, Charles, 1774-1857, printmaker.
Material base
paper
Note
After a painting by John James Halls, active c.1791 — 1834
This is a PRELIMINARY RECORD. It may contain incorrect information. Please email catalog@folger.edu for assistance.
This is a PRELIMINARY RECORD. It may contain incorrect information. Please email catalog@folger.edu for assistance.
Place of creation/publication
Great Britain -- England.
Item Details
Call number
FAST ACC 272124
Folger-specific note
This is a PRELIMINARY RECORD. It may contain incorrect information. The "FAST ACC" number is a temporary call number. Please email catalog@folger.edu for assistance. Ordered from Joel R. Bergquist Fine Arts, D9470, 2021-04-25, email quote. From dealer's description: "CHARLES TURNER [Woodstock 1774 — 1857 London]. The Witch Sailing to Aleppo. Mezzotint, 1807. Platemark: 23 7/8 x 18 inches; 656 x 457 mm. Catalogue: Whitman (1907), 748 [proofs are mentioned, but no states are described]. As "The Witch Sailing to Mecca". After a painting by John James Halls, active c.1791 — 1834. A proof before engraved letters. Inscriptions have been added in pencil, though they do not correspond to the subsequently engraved lettering. In pencil at left: Painted by J. Halls. At right: Engraved by C. Turner At lower center: A Witch Sailing to Aleppo. At lower right: Shakespeare’s MacBeth . The print depicts the First Witch in Macbeth, Act I, Scene III, who says: “Her husband’s to Aleppo gone, master o’ the Tiger. But in a sieve, I’ll thither sail, And, like a rat without a tail, I’ll do. I’ll do. I’ll do.” In Halls’ painting and the mezzotint, the witch sails along in a sieve in the wind-tossed seas, with a full moon overhead. Printed on stout laid paper with an indistinct lettered watermark. A very rare, superb, proof impression of this plate, in excellent condition."
Folger accession
272124