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Print shows five witches flying on a single broom over a rural landscape.
Loco Foco witches laying a spell over the country. Woodcut, ca. 1836. https://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/ppmsca.71357

An Acquisition Adventure: “Loco Foco Witches Laying a Spell Over the Country”

Posted by: Barbara Orbach Natanson

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The following is a guest post by Sara W. Duke, Curator of Popular and Applied Graphic Arts, Prints and Photographs Division.

“Exceptionally rare and believed to be previously unknown,” in the seller’s letter intrigued me. On offer, an 1836 anti-Martin Van Buren woodcut print, depicting Van Buren as a witch and