[Iambe Offering the Kykeon to Demeter],, (undated)

Lubell 8/14: 302a-b

Woodcut print of temple scene with female figures. Center figures are two kneeling women, one with shawl and the other offering a cup. Background female figures dancing. Below (?) sleeping or dead pigs and a [rat?]. Both prints are black with white gouache adding emphasis or covering unwanted lines. Lubell 302a is identified as “Proof 1.” The upper half of this image is Figure 2.2 in Winifred Lubell’s book The Metamorphosis of Baubo, which is titled Iambe Offering the Kykeon to Demeter. See woodblock titled [Iambe Offering the Kykeon to Demeter] (Lubell 450, Box 27). For another treatment of the same subject, see Lubell 111.

302a – 31.1 x 20 cm

302b – 34.6 x 200.1 cm