Brujas à volar (Witches Preparing to Fly) [verso]

Francisco Goya

National Gallery of Art

Created with black ink and gray washes on cream-white paper, this drawing shows a person with a pig’s face sitting astride the shoulders of a person with goat’s legs, both looking at a book held open by two people wearing robes and tall, conical hats. The creature with goat's legs sits on the floor, legs stretched in front of it. It grips the ankles of the pig-headed person, who looks at the book with with palms raised to shoulder height and facing out. The robed people hold the book open with long pincers and look at the pair of imaginary creatures with their eyes and mouths wide open. On the cloth draping over the table, three faces are drawn side-by-side, also with wide-open eyes and mouths.  A skull rests on the floor near the lower left corner. The title is written in the center of the margin of the white paper under the image, “Brujas,” and to the right, in brown ink, “à bolar.”