Periwinkle (Vinca) Vijnkoorde Maegde Palm. / Vinca per vinca Clematis daphnoides. / Lisseron (title on object); Periwinkle; in three colors. Numbered top right: 263. Top right the name in five languages. 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 explanation in Dutch; Latin and French.; Anselmus Boetius de Boodt; 1596 - 1610; paper; watercolor (paint); deck paint; chalk; ink; pen; h 246 mm 脙鈥?w 170 mm