This print is one of the proofs for the first edition of Phillips' Dante's Inferno. The completed prints were destroyed in a fire at the Editions Alecto studio and never published as an edition. Phillips subsequently redid the prints in a different manner although he borrowed some of the imagery from the first edition. The prints in a limited edition and a trade edition book were published by Phillips and Thames and Hudson, respectively. A Humument text of this image reads, "with every nerve / stretched / the hard /exaggeration / ugh / ugh / came / into his / hidden / woman / lacerating / Angry, savage / creature / of his blind / fantastic / cow / the / Once, one / only last / of a new kind / mixed with pain. He / hardly recognized himself." Added: CEND.