PEM204697 Examination of a Witch, 1853 (oil on canvas) by Matteson, Tompkins Harrison (1813-84); Peabody Essex Museum, Salem, Massachusetts, USA; (add.info.: The Salem witch trials were a series of hearings and prosecutions of people accused of witchcraft in colonial Massachusetts between February 1692 and May 1693. The trials resulted in the executions of twenty people, most of them women.); 穢 Peabody Essex Museum ; American, out of copyright.