Witches' cat – Vintage Wall Art
(Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)
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Few images capture their era like this historic print of Witches' cat. It is part of the Snapshots of the Past archive, gathered over 25 years of research.
Choose the framed print, ready to hang the day it arrives, or the unframed print for a frame of your own. Perfect for a home, office, library or classroom wall, and a gift with a story behind it. Free shipping in the lower 48 states. Snapshots of the Past has been bringing history to the wall since 2001, for tens of thousands of customers worldwide.
Witches' cat
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A color woodcut from 1951 that casts a cat as the witches' companion, a pairing that carries centuries of folklore. In early modern Europe, black cats were often regarded as witches' familiars, animals thought to share in their magic, and that belief fed the witch trials of the 1500s and 1600s. By the mid-20th century, the witch-and-cat scene had become a staple of American Halloween imagery in cards, posters and printed ephemera. Woodcut suits such a subject, since its bold, simplified shapes give the figures a stark, folkloric quality.
| Medium | 1 print : col. woodcut ; 38.3 x 29.5 cm. |
|---|---|
| Notes | [1951] |
| Original scan | 1,168 × 1,536 px · prints to 4 × 5 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | 3a43447_WitchesCat |
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