Cornflower (Centaurea cyanus) diversche Couleuren van Koorn Bloemen. / Cijanus variis Coloribus. / Bluets the different Couleurs. Casse lunette (title on object); Cornflowers in white; purple and blue. With a snail. Numbered top right: 291. Top left the name in Latin and Dutch. Part of the third album with drawings of flowers and plants. Tenth of twelve albums with drawings of animals; birds and plants known around 1600; commissioned by Emperor Rudolf II. With explanations in Dutch; Latin and French; flowers (with NAME); molluscs: snail; Anselmus Boetius de Boodt; 1596 - 1610; paper; watercolor (paint); deck paint; chalk; ink; pen; h 268 mm 脙鈥?w 165 mm