Bon Voyage (Los Caprichos, Plate 64)

In this etching, a monstrous, dark-winged figure mid-flight clutches a group of agonized human heads and torsos. The scene is defined by extreme contrast between deep shadow and sharp highlights, emphasizing the chaotic and nightmarish expressions of the figures being abducted. It is one of the more unsettling plates from a series exploring human folly and the supernatural.

This image reflects the 18th-century cultural shift where the iconography of witchcraft and demonology, formerly used in early modern natural philosophy to explain occult forces, was re-interpreted as a manifestation of the irrational, the unconscious, and the 'dark side' of human reason.