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Alkanet (Anchusa arvensis) and butcher's broom (Ruscus aculeatus)
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Alkanet (Anchusa arvensis) and butcher's broom (Ruscus aculeatus)

anonymous · 1604 - 1632 · engraving; hand coloring; paper; ink; watercolor (paint)

From the collection of Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam. Free to download, adapt and use — no permission needed.

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Blackthorn and hawthorn. Figs. 31 and 32 on a sheet hand-numbered 17. 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 watercolours of animals, birds and plants known around 1600, made on commission of Emperor Rudolf II.

Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam’s own description
Credit lineKromhals (Anchusa arvensis) en muisdoorn (Ruscus aculeatus). 1604 - 1632. anonymous. Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam. Public domain.

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