Cadmus Asks the Oracle of Delphi What He Should Do Now That He Has Been Unable to Find His Sister Europa

Cadmus, like his brothers sent by his father to search for his sister Europa, asks the oracle of Delphi what he should do now that he has been unable to find her. The oracle answers that he must drive a certain cow before him and found a city where she lies down. In the foreground of the print, Cadmus kneels before the oracle; in the background, he drives the cow before him. Below the image, two sets of two lines of Latin text. 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 third set.