Carnations (Dianthus caryophyllus) and lemons (Citrus limon)

Garden pinks and (thorny) lemons. With a bird snapping at a fly and a small ornamental plant. Figs. 19 and 20 on a sheet hand-numbered 11. In: Anselmi Boëtii de Boot I.C. Brugensis & Rodolphi II. Imp. Roman. medici a cubiculis Florum, Herbarum, ac fructuum selectiorum icones, & vires pleraeque hactenus ignotæ. Part of the album with sheets and plates from De Boodt's herbarium of 1640. The twelfth of twelve albums with watercolors of animals, birds, and plants known around 1600, made on commission of Emperor Rudolf II.