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Daughters of Cecrops Open the Basket of Minerva
From the collection of Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam. Free to download, adapt and use — no permission needed.
About this work
Depiction of the first story told by the crow Cornix to the white raven Corvus. Cornix sees from a tree that the three daughters of Cecrops open a woven basket entrusted to them by Minerva, which they were forbidden to open. Inside the basket is Erichthonius, a baby with a snake's tail. This print is part of a series of 52 prints depicting stories from Ovid's Metamorphoses. The series is divided into three numbered sets: two sets of 20 prints and one set of 12 prints. This print belongs to the second set.
Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam’s own descriptionSubjects
Credit lineDochters van Cecrops openen de mand van Minerva. 1590. Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam. Public domain.
