Demeter with the Torch, and Cora with a Sceptre, consecrating a Youth (Triptolemus or Jacchus *), (sculpture)

Object Details

Notes: Appears in exhibition catalog as entry no. 1; Presented by C.C. Perkins. [P. 19; full entry reads: "Cast from a marble relief discovered at Eleusis, and now in the Museum at Athens, representing Demeter with the torch, and Cora with the Sceptre, consecrating a youth (Triptolemus or Jacchus?)"]; Catalogue of Works of Art in the Permanent and Loaned Collections of the Yale School of Fine Arts, founded as a Department of Yale College, by the late Augustus Russell Street. Winter Exhibition. The Galleries are open daily, Mondays excepted, from 10 a.m. to 12 noon and from 1:30 to 4:30 p.m. For the purpose of defraying the running expenses of the exhibition, a single admission fee of 10 cents is charged. Season Tickets 50 cents. Catalogues 25 cents. New Haven: Tuttle, Morehouse & Taylor, Printers, 221 State Street. 1871.

Topic: Mythology--Classical--Demeter; Mythology--Classical--Cora; Portrait male; Ceremony--Religion--Consecration