The Sorceress

A richly worked black-and-white engraving stages a fantastical nocturnal gathering around a blazing fire. A partially draped woman reaches toward the swirling mass of grotesque figures, beasts, masks, and curling smoke, while distant hills, trees, and a small house recede into the darkness. The dense crosshatching and animated contours create a theatrical vision of disorder, framed below by an extended Latin inscription that gives the scene a moralizing, emblematic character.