A drawing of Iphis and Ianthe kneeling side by side. In the temple to the right, Iphis's mother Telethusa sacrifices to Isis, who had encouraged her to bring up her daughter as a boy; to the left Iphis kneels before Ianthe at the foot of the bed of Ligdus, the father of Iphis (from Book IX, 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.