AFTER JOHN JAMES HALLS (1776-1853)

AFTER JOHN JAMES HALLS (1776-1853)
'The Witch - Sailing to Aleppo in a Sieve', 1807
mezzotint, engraved and published by Charles Turner, London, for 'The Proprietor', no. 50, Warren Street, Fitzroy Square
44 x 61cm, framed

The scene draws on a prominent scene in Shakespeare's 'Macbeth' where one of the witches says she intends on sailing to Aleppo in a sieve to seek revenge on the husband of a woman who refused her some chestnuts.