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Object Type
print
Museum number
1895,0122.372
Title
Series:
Weiberlisten
(Women's wile)
Description
Aristotle and Phyllis; Aristotle as a peasant crawling around a vine arbour on all fours with Phyllis on his back. c.1519 Woodcut
Producer name
Print made by:
Hans Burgkmair the Elder
Block cut by:
Jost de Negker
School/style
German
Production date
1519
(circa)
Materials
paper
Technique
woodcut
Dimensions
Height:
117 millimetres
Width:
94 millimetres
$Inscriptions
Curator's comments
See T. Falk, 'Hans Burgkmair. Das graphische Werk', exh. cat., Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Augsburg, Augsburg 1973, no.118.
Bibliographic references
Bartsch / Le Peintre graveur
(VII.221.73)
Hollstein / German engravings, etchings and woodcuts c.1400-1700
(283.I)
Dodgson 1903, 1911 / Catalogue of Early German and Flemish Woodcuts in the BM, 2 vols
(II.101.171)
Location
Not on display
Subjects
myth/legend
Associated names
Representation of:
Aristotle
Representation of:
Phyllis
Acquisition name
Donated by:
William Mitchell
Acquisition date
1895
Department
Prints and Drawings
Registration number
1895,0122.372