The Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art is staging the UK's first large-scale exhibition dedicated to the depiction of witches in art. Witches & Wicked Bodies includes this mezzotint by John Raphel Smith.
The Magic Circle by John William Waterhouse is one of more than 80 works by influential artists which feature in the Witches & Wicked Bodies exhibition, which runs until 3 November at the Scottish Gallery of Modern Art.
This work by John Runciman in about 1767 is believed to be a representation of the three witches from Shakespeare’s "Macbeth".
The Witchesʼ Rout (The Carcass) was painted by Agostino Veneziano (Agostino de' Musi) in 1520.
Witchesʼ Sabbath by Frans Francken II, painted in 1606, shows a witches’ kitchen with a coven assembled to prepare for the Sabbath.
