Triptolemus receives the car from Ceres, Crispijn van de Passe (I), 1602 - 1607 print Ceres asks Triptolemus grain and gives him her car that is drawn by dragons. On the left in the background the jealous Scythian king Lyncus who wants to stab the sleeping Triptolemus with his sword but is turned into a lynx by Ceres. In the margin a four -line caption, in two columns, in Latin. Cologne paper engraving Ceres instructs Triptolemus and sends him about the world in her dragon-drawn chariot. Lyncus changed into a lynx: Ceres changes Lyncus into a lynx when he is on the point of murdering the sleep
Triptolemus receives the car from Ceres, Crispijn van de Passe (I), 1602 - 1607 print Ceres asks Triptolemus grain and gives him her car that is drawn by dragons. On the left in the background the jealous Scythian king Lyncus who wants to stab the sleeping Triptolemus with his sword but is turned into a lynx by Ceres. In the margin a four -line caption, in two columns, in Latin. Cologne paper engraving Ceres instructs Triptolemus and sends him about the world in her dragon-drawn chariot. Lyncus changed into a lynx: Ceres changes Lyncus into a lynx when he is on the point of murdering the sleeping Triptolemus (Ovid, Metamorphoses V 657)
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