Dryope picks blossom, crispijn van de passe (i), 1602 - 1607 print Dryope, with her child Amphissus in her arms, picks blossoms from the Nymph Lotis turned into a water Lotus, on which the flower starts to bleed. Dryope turns into a tree in the background. In the margin a four -line caption, in two columns, in Latin. Cologne paper engraving Dryope changed into a lotus-plant: Dryope is changed into a lotus-plant, when to please her little boy she picks a flower from a lotus-plant ( Lotis metamorphosed) which then starts to bleed (Ovid, Metamorphoses IX 331)

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