A drawing of a landscape scene in which the ploughman in the left foreground is horrified as his bulls suddenly die of the pestilence cast over the island of Aegina by Juno. To the right, Cephalus, with Clytos and Butes, is received by Aeacus. In the centre background Aeacus prays to Jupiter in the sky, who creates the Myrmidones out of ants (from Book VII, Ovid's Metamorphoses). From one of two 18th century albums of drawings, which, with the exception of four (W&C 134-7), were all preparatory studies for an edition of illustrations to Ovid's Metamorphoses. They were engraved in reverse by the artist, and were accompanied by distichs at the bottom of each plate. The first edition was published in Cologne in 1602, and the second in 1607.