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Museum number: 1872,1012.903
Description: Aristotle and Phyllis; Aristotle as a bearded old man crawling on all fours, with a bit between his teeth, Phyllis sitting on his back and striking him with a whip. Scene set in a courtyard with two trees, a figure looking on from the building on the left. 1515 Woodcut
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Production date: 1515
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Dimensions: Height: 327 millimetres; Width: 235 millimetres
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Curator's comments: Second state with the changed date of 1515, the rare first state carries the date 1513. See K. Parker, 'Early German woodcuts in the BM', MS notes, 2 vols, vol. 2, p.71. See Matthias Mende, 'Hans Baldung Grien. Das graphische Werk', Unterschneidheim 1978, no.31. Mende comments on Phyllis's contemporary headdress, as well as the early sixteenth-cent. architecture. He sees a self-portrait in the figure of the onlooker.
Bibliographic references: Hollstein / German engravings, etchings and woodcuts c.1400-1700 (232.II); Bartsch / Le Peintre graveur (VII.317.48)
Location: Not on display
Associated names: Representation of: Aristotle; Representation of: Phyllis
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Acquisition date: 1872
Department: Prints and Drawings
Registration number: 1872,1012.903
Conservation: Treatment: 13 Feb 2013; Treatment: 21 Mar 2013

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