Marchocias

This illustration depicts the demon Marchocias (or Marchosias), a Great Marquis of Hell, from the 1863 edition of Jacques Collin de Plancy's Dictionnaire Infernal:

• Subject & Anatomy: Marchocias is rendered as a predatory, hybrid beast—bearing the body, ferocious snout, and paws of a she-wolf, paired with large feathered griffin wings and a long serpent's tail curled into an upright spiral.

• Action & Pose: Posed in an active, leaping crouch against a minimalist mountainous landscape, the demon belches a tall plume of fire from its open maw.

• Artist & Engraver: Illustrated by French draughtsman and marine painter Louis Le Breton (signed "L.B." in the lower left) and cut into wood by engraver M. Jarrault (signed "JARRAULT" in the lower right).

• Demonic Lore: Drawing on classical demonological treatises such as Johann Weyer’s Pseudomonarchia Daemonum and the Ars Goetia, Marchocias is described as a fierce and reliable warrior spirit who commands thirty legions, obeys summoners faithfully, and harbored hope of returning to the Seventh Throne after twelve hundred years.