Witch and Dragon
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Witch and Dragon (1515, German: Stehende Hexe mit Ungeheuer) is a drawing by Hans Baldung which depicts a young woman and a dragon or a sea serpent.
- "It is to be feared that Grien wants us to imagine that the witch has just given birth, and it is an umbilical cord that connects her to a monster that has just ingested her baby." --Roy Booth
The drawing, a pen on brown-tinted paper, heightened with white is located at the Staatliche Kunsthalle Karlsruhe. A stream of fire of the dragon appears to penetrate the pudenda of the young woman. The young woman is holding on to a liana of a tree, the end of the liana enters the dragon's tale. The drawing also features two babies, one is seemingly trying to pry open the jaws of the dragon, another is holding on to its tail.
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