Otter, with a fish in its mouth. Numbered at the top right: 20. At the top left the name in four languages. Part of the first album with drawings of quadrupeds. First of twelve albums with drawings of animals, birds and plants known around 1600, commissioned by emperor Rudolf II. With explanatory notes in Dutch, Latin and French, Otter (Lutra lutra) Otter. / Lutra. / Loutre., draughtsman: Anselmus Boëtius de Boodt, draughtsman: Elias Verhulst, draughtsman: Praag, draughtsman: Delft, 1596 - 1610, paper, brush, pen, h 175 mm × w 280 mm

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