Daughters of Cecrops open the basket of Minerva, Metamorphoses of Ovid (series title), The daughters of Cecrops open the basket entrusted to them by Minerva. In the basket is the child Erichthonius, who to their horror has a snake's tail. From a tree, a crow looks on. In the lower margin a four-line explanation, in two columns, in Latin., print maker: Hendrick Goltzius, (workshop of), after design by: Hendrick Goltzius, Franco Estius, Haarlem, 1590, paper, engraving, height 179 mm × width 255 mm

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