The old man Battus had promised Mercury not to reveal to anyone the whereabouts of the cattle which the latter had stolen from Apollo. But when Mercury asked him about it in another guise, he told him anyway. Thereupon the god Battus turned into a stone. The print shows Mercury facing Battus, behind them a herd of cattle. In the foreground Apollo, playing a pan flute. Below the depiction two times two lines of Latin text. This print is part of a series of 52 prints depicting stories from Ovid's Metamorphoses. This series is divided into three numbered series: two of 20 prints and one of 12

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