Arcas aims his arrow at Callisto, Metamorphoses of Ovid (series title), Arcas, the son of Jupiter and Callisto, aims his arrow at a bear, not knowing that it is his mother. She had been turned into a bear by Juno fifteen years earlier out of envy. In the background right, Jupiter places mother and son in the sky as constellations. In the lower margin a four-line commentary, in two columns, in Latin., print maker: Hendrick Goltzius, (workshop of), after design by: Hendrick Goltzius, Franco Estius, Haarlem, 1590, paper, engraving, height 175 mm × width 254 mm

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