Date: 1855
Technique: Engraving
Illustration to Tam O'Shanter by Robert Burns
Showing posts with label Witches. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Witches. Show all posts
6/13/24
6/11/24
6/9/24
John Fabian Carlson, The Witches Cabin
Private collection
Date: Unknown
Technique: Oil on board, 20.3 x 25.4 cm
6/10/19
4/11/19
Arthur Rackham, The Witch's Pool
Technique: Watercolour, heightened with touches of bodycolour on paper, 27.3 x 15.2 cm
4/7/19
John Joseph Barker, Tam o' Shanter
Date: 1866
Technique: Oil on panel, 19 x 25.5 cm
4/11/17
10/3/15
9/28/15
Frank Dicksee, The Magic Crystal
Date: 1894
Technique: Oil on canvas, 168.5 x 102 cm
8/3/15
Jehan Georges Vibert, The Fortune Teller
Date: Late 19th century
Technique: Unknown
7/19/15
John Henry Fuseli/ Johann Heinrich Füssli, The Three Witches Appearing to Macbeth and Banquo
Technique: Oil on canvas, 87.3 x 111.7 cm
7/3/15
John Faed, Illustration to Tam O'Shanter by Robert Burns. Study for an engraving
Date: Unknown
Technique: Brush, dark brown wash and white heightening on paper, 6.40 x 8.50 cm
6/23/15
Eugène Delacroix, Tam o' Shanter (after the poem by Robert Burns)
Date: 1825
Technique: Oil on canvas, 26.2 x 30.8 cm
Delacroix painted three versions of this scene; a larger version is in a private collection in Zürich and one has been lost.
"Tam o' Shanter" is a narrative poem written by the Scottish poet Robert Burns in 1790, while living in Dumfries. First published in 1791, it is one of Burns' longer poems, and employs a mixture of Scots and English.
The poem describes the habits of Tam, a farmer who often gets drunk with his friends in a public house in the Scottish town of Ayr, and his thoughtless ways, specifically towards his wife, who is waiting at home for him, angry. At the conclusion of one such late-night revel after a market day, Tam rides home on his horse Meg while a storm is brewing. On the way he sees the local haunted church lit up, with witches and warlocks dancing and the devil playing the bagpipes. He is still drunk, still upon his horse, just on the edge of the light, watching, amazed to see the place bedecked with many gruesome things such as gibbet irons and knives that had been used to commit murders and other macabre artifacts. The witches are dancing as the music intensifies and, upon seeing one particularly wanton witch in a short dress he loses his reason and shouts,`Weel done, cutty-sark!' (cutty-sark : "short shirt"). Immediately, the lights go out, the music and dancing stops and many of the creatures lunge after Tam, with the witches leading. Tam spurs Meg to turn and flee and drives the horse on towards the River Doon as the creatures dare not cross a running stream. The creatures give chase and the witches come so close to catching Tam and Meg that they pull Meg's tail off just as she reaches the Brig o' Doon.
1/12/15
Rookwood Pottery, Something Wicked Panel
Date: 1901
Technique: Powdered pigments on cast plaster, 96.5 x 67.3 cm
Rookwood Pottery, an American firm that employed exceptionally talented sculptors and decorators, produced ceramic wares and architectural faience in a variety of styles. This example, commissioned for a Cincinnati gentleman’s club, illustrates the the moment when Shakespeare's Macbeth braving a violent thunderstorm, approaches three witches at their cauldron (Act IV, Scene I). Sensing his arrival, the Second Witch warns her sisters:
"By the pricking of my thumbs, Something wicked this way comes."
This theatrical composition was intended foe viewers with a taste for art, literature, and the macabre. Specially treated and colored to suggest a foul and fetid atmosphere, the relief is skillfully modeled and richly detailed.
7/10/14
John Henry Fuseli/ Johann Heinrich Füssli, Macbeth and the Witches
Technique: Unknown
8/30/13
Edwin Austin Abbey, Macbeth and the Three Witches
8/29/13
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