Tiresias Striking Two Mating Snakes

Tiresias strikes two mating snakes in a forest. Thereupon he turned into a woman. Seven years later, he turned back into a man after striking two mating snakes again; this is visible in the background on the left. 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 third set.