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Title: [Proserpine, Triptolemus and Demeter.]
Image ID: 817481
Image ID 817481
Creators: Petit, L., engraver
Fourquemin, lithographer
Physical Description: 1 print : b&w ; 24 x 29 cm. (9 1/2 x 11 1/4 in.)
Material Type: Prints
Subjects: Clothing & Dress -- Greece -- To 499
Demeter (Greek Deity)
Greeks -- To 499
Persephone (Greek Deity)
Triptolemus (Greek Mythology)
Chariots -- Greece -- To 499
Men -- Clothing & Dress -- Greece -- To 499
Staffs (Sticks) -- To 499
Women -- Clothing & Dress -- Greece -- To 499
Book Illustrations
Notes: Foxing on image. Printed on border: "T. III." "Pl. L." Written on border: "Triptolemus seated in his winged chariot wears a laurel crown and plaited talaric tunic. His left hand grasps a sceptre and blades of wheat and in his right hand is a phial. Ceres with hair covered by a cecryphale wears a plaited talaric tunic and peplos and holds an oenochoe as though offering the cyceon. Prosperine dressed in a talaric tunic and peplos, holds a wreath of pearls. Pinacotheque, Munich."
Date Published: 1844-1861
Barcode Number: 33333159254776
Struc ID: 584717
Source: Elite des monuments céramographiques : matériaux pour l'histoire des religions et des moeurs de l'antiquité.    View All images from Source
In Folder: Costume -- ancient -- Greece    View All images from Folder

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