Seal. Numbered top right: 5. Top right the name in six languages. Part of the second album with drawings of quadrupeds. Second of twelve albums with drawings of animals, birds and plants known around 1600, commissioned by emperor Rudolf II. With notes in Dutch, Latin and French, Seal (Phocidae) sea dog, robbe. / Phoca, vitulus Marinus. / Robbe. veau marin, draughtsman: Anselmus Boëtius de Boodt, draughtsman: Elias Verhulst, draughtsman: Praag, draughtsman: Delft, 1596 - 1610, paper, brush, pen, h 126 mm × w 243 mm.
Seal. Numbered top right: 5. Top right the name in six languages. Part of the second album with drawings of quadrupeds. Second of twelve albums with drawings of animals, birds and plants known around 1600, commissioned by emperor Rudolf II. With notes in Dutch, Latin and French, Seal (Phocidae) sea dog, robbe. / Phoca, vitulus Marinus. / Robbe. veau marin, draughtsman: Anselmus Boëtius de Boodt, draughtsman: Elias Verhulst, draughtsman: Praag, draughtsman: Delft, 1596 - 1610, paper, brush, pen, h 126 mm × w 243 mm