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Maker(s):Rops, Felicien
Culture:Belgian (1833-1898)
Title:L'incantation (ou Evocation) [Incantation (or Evocation)] [light version]
Date Made:ca. 1909
Type:Print
Materials:Softground etching on tan wove paper
Place Made:Europe
Measurements:mat: 22 in x 16 in; 55.88 cm x 40.64 cm; sheet: 20 5/8 in x 13 11/16 in; 52.3875 cm x 34.76625 cm; image: 11 11/16 in x 7 7/16 in; 29.68625 cm x 18.89125 cm
Narrative Inscription:  Recto: lwr. l. (in plate): Felicien Rops; ctr. of image (in plate): Compendium Maleficarium / De / Demonia[?]tate / De Viperis / De Venems; lwr. ctr., below image (red pencil): Felicien Rops; lwr. r. (graphite): E 436. Recto of mat: lwr. r. (graphite): E 436.
Accession Number:  MH 1991.4.370
Credit Line:Bequest of Helene Brosseau Black (Class of 1931)
Museum Collection:  Mount Holyoke College Art Museum
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Description:
This print depicts a standing woman, nude except for hat and veil, coming out of a broken mirror in a very crowded study with stained glass window in background and occult accoutrements everywhere; man seated before her with large book opened to a page which says "Compendium Maleficarium De Demonia[?]tate De Viperis De Venems".

Subjects:
Etching

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