An etching of Circe seated in an alcove of a ruined wall, with an urn and books at her feet; on the ground in centre some pieces of armour and a plumed beret; the animals approaching from the right include a ram and a dog; a peacock stands a on wall behind them. Inscribed, lower right; G. BENEDs. CASTILIONUS/ genvensis in Pin. Homer’s Odyssey relates how Odysseus and his men, during their wanderings after the Trojan War, landed on the island of the sorceress Circe, who transformed the men into animals. Framed by a decaying niche and with a pile of magical volumes before her, Circe gazes with an air of melancholy at the beasts, their discarded armour in the foreground. The acid-bite of the etching plate was unusually successful, and the print has a remarkable luminosity.