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Cadmus consulting the Oracle of Delphi
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Cadmus consulting the Oracle of Delphi

1615 · engraving; paper

From the collection of Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam. Free to download, adapt and use — no permission needed.

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Cadmus, like his brothers sent by his father to search for his sister Europa, visits the oracle of Delphi to ask Apollo for advice, because he could not 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. In the lower margin, a four-line explanation, in two columns, in Latin.

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Credit lineCadmus raadpleegt het orakel van Delphi. 1615. Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam. Public domain.

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