A drawing of Polymestor stretched out on the ground while a woman on the left raises a club to batter him. Hecuba, assisted by another woman, is gouging out Polymestor's eyes. In the right background, Polyxena is put to death by Neoptolemus, and on the left her body is laid out for washing. Meanwhile her mother, also on the left, discovers the body of her son, Polydorus (Book XIII, 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.