Arcas Aims His Arrow at Callisto

Arcas, the son of Jupiter and Callisto, aims his arrow at a bear, unaware that it is his mother, who was transformed fifteen years earlier. In the background on the right, Jupiter places mother and son in the sky as constellations before Arcas can shoot. Below the image, two sets of two lines of Latin text. This print is part of a series of 52 prints depicting stories from Ovid's Metamorphoses. The series is divided into three numbered sets: two sets of 20 prints and one set of 12 prints. This print belongs to the second set.