From the top of their flight the superb witches are thrown down (10th? dream )

A preparatory drawing for Caprice 62. Who would have believed it, the scene seems to be linked to the image of the Expulsion from Paradise, the witches' pride corresponding to the character of Adam and Eve. Here, the enraged cat hurls the pleasure-obsessed witches towards an earth depicted as a vast, barren landscape that is lost in the distance, and blames them for returning to the painful work they had given up in the print of Caprice 60. Rehearsals.

Instead, Maurer speaks of the witch's irrevocable fall into hell in the print, represented by the bear, whose figure is derived from the wild beasts devouring sinners, who live in the lower margins of the popular medieval images of the Last Judgement.

The series of Dreams, as Matilla and Mena see it, associated with the domain of magic and ending with a descent into hell, seems to represent a reversal of the sublime idea of the Way of Virtue, through which man can recover the integrity lost in Original Sin.

The drawing shows an imprint left by the pressure of the press during the intaglio process on the copper plate measuring 214 x 149 mm, as well as vertical stippling measuring 25-26 mm.