Small or West African white-noseed cat. Numbered top right: 4. Inscription with name in Latin. 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, Kleine witneusmeerkat (Cercopithecus petaurista) Meerkatte. / Cercopithecus barbatus. / ouanderou, draughtsman: Anselmus Boëtius de Boodt, (mentioned on object), Praag, 1596 - 1610, paper, brush, pen, h 122 mm × w 170 mm

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