Ovid's Metamorphosis : Englished, mythologiz'd, and represented in figures. An essay to the translation of Virgil's Æneis
Ovid's Metamorphosis, a 1632 Oxford edition of the Latin poem translated into English and mythologised by George Sandys, printed by John Lichfield for an educated English readership. Its engravings show Ovid's transformation episodes as crowded narrative scenes with classical architecture, clouds and figures in motion, and a designer could take from them the staging of mythic action across several figure groups in a single plate.
