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| Title: | [Triptolemus, Ceres, Metanira, and Celeus.] |
| Image ID: | 819371 |
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| Creators: | Housselin, engraver |
| Fourquemin, lithographer | |
| Physical Description: | 1 print : b&w ; 21 x 25 cm. (8 x 10 in.) |
| Material Type: | Prints |
| Subjects: | Scepters |
| Cranes (Birds) | |
| Decoration And Ornament -- Greece | |
| Dogs | |
| Ceres (Roman Deity) | |
| Triptolemus (Greek Mythology) | |
| Book Illustrations | |
| Chariots -- Greece | |
| Veils -- Greece | |
| Notes: | Written on border; "Triptolemus seated on his winged chariot holds his sceptre and wheat. Ceres, goddess of harvest, wears a talaric tunic with a peplos, her hair covered with a veil. She holds a long sceptre and caresses a crane. Metanira holds a flowering sceptre, her hair enveloped in a cecryphale. Celeus, king of Eleusis holds a sceptre. Beside him is a dog, symbol of the domestic hearth. Metanira and Celeus are parents of Triptolemus. From AuserleseneVasenbilder by Gerhard." Printed on border: "T. III" "Pl. LVII. A." |
| Date Published: | 1844-1861 |
| Barcode Number: | 33333159302955 |
| Struc ID: | 593397 |
| Source: | Elite des monuments céramographiques : matériaux pour l'histoire des religions et des moeurs de l'antiquité. View All images from Source |
| In Folder: | Design -- Greek View All images from Folder |
