print
- Museum number
- E,7.42
- Title
- Series: Weiberlisten (Women's wile)
- Description
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Aristotle and Phyllis; Aristotle as a peasant crawling around a vine arbour on all fours with Phyllis on his back. Set inside an architectural ornament border, with letterpress below the woodcut, but inside the border.
Woodcut and letterpress
- Production date
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1519 (circa)
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1522-1536 (Border)
- Dimensions
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Height: 223 millimetres (Sheet size)
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Width: 156 millimetres
- $Inscriptions
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- Curator's comments
- Holbein was influenced by the main figures of this design for his own woodcut of Aristotle and Phylis, incorporated into a title-page for an edition of Poliziano's 'Miscellaneorum centuria una', Basel, 1522 (Hollstein 41). See E.Stuart in K. Heard and L. Whitaker, 'The Northern Renaissance: Dürer to Holbein' London, 2011, p. 193, no.89, fig. 56
Lit: T. Falk, 'Hans Burgkmair. Das graphische Werk', exh. cat., Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Augsburg, Augsburg 1973, no.119.
- Location
- Not on display
- Acquisition date
- 1810 (before)
- Acquisition notes
- Laid down on its mount
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Registration number
- E,7.42
