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- Title:
The Three Witches
- Additional Title(s):
The Weird Sisters
- Part Of:
- Date:
- 1786
- Medium:
- Stipple engraving and etching on moderately thick, moderately textured, cream laid paper
- Dimensions:
- Sheet: 9 1/2 × 10 3/16 inches (24.2 × 25.9 cm), Image: 8 × 10 3/16 inches (20.3 × 25.8 cm)
- Inscription(s)/Marks/Lettering:
Lettered in black ink, lower left: "H. Fuseli pinxt."; lower center: "THE WITCHES. | ___ What are these | So wither'd, and so wild in their attire, | That look not like th'inhabitants o' th' earth, | And yet are on't? Live you or are you ought | That man may question? You seem to understand me | By each at once her choppy finger laying | Upon her skinny lips. | Shakespear _ Macbeth. | London Published Augt. 30th. 1786 by T. Macklin."; lower right: "P. W. Tomkins Sculpt. Pupil of F. Bartolozzi."
- Credit Line:
- Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund
- Copyright Status:
- Public Domain
- Accession Number:
- B1976.1.206
- Classification:
- Prints
- Collection:
- Prints and Drawings
- Subject Terms:
- capes (outerwear) | cloaks | gesture | hoods | literary theme | Macbeth, Act I, Scene III | moth | plays by William Shakespeare | pointing | profile (figure) | skull | witches | women
- Associated People:
- Shakespeare, William (1564–1616), playwright and poet
The Three Witches (characters in Macbeth) - Access:
- Accessible by appointment in the Study Room [Request]
Note: The Study Room is open by appointment. Please visit the Study Room page on our website for more details. - Link:
- https://collections.britishart.yale.edu/catalog/tms:25453
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