Roof van Proserpina, Crispijn van de Passe (I), 1602 print Pluto is in his car and kidnaps Proserpina, the daughter of Ceres, to the underworld. Her friends and Minerva look shocked from the bank. The nymph Cyane that is sad because she could not stop Pluto cries and dissolves in the water. In the margin a four -line caption, in two columns, in Latin. Cologne paper engraving the rape of Proserpina (by Pluto in his chariot); possibly with Diana and Minerva trying to rescue her. Cyane changed into a fountain: when trying to stop Pluto from abducting Proserpina, the nymph Cyane is changed into a
Roof van Proserpina, Crispijn van de Passe (I), 1602 print Pluto is in his car and kidnaps Proserpina, the daughter of Ceres, to the underworld. Her friends and Minerva look shocked from the bank. The nymph Cyane that is sad because she could not stop Pluto cries and dissolves in the water. In the margin a four -line caption, in two columns, in Latin. Cologne paper engraving the rape of Proserpina (by Pluto in his chariot); possibly with Diana and Minerva trying to rescue her. Cyane changed into a fountain: when trying to stop Pluto from abducting Proserpina, the nymph Cyane is changed into a fountain (Ovid, Metamorphoses V 411)
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