Blue saffron crocus and orange wild crocus. Numbered upper right: 168. Part of the second album with drawings of flowers and plants. Ninth 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., Saffron crocus (Crocus sativus) 1. sincere Saffraen. 2. savage Saffras. / Crocus verus 2. Crocus Slaveus / 1. du Saffran veritable 2. Crocus., draughtsman: Anselmus Boëtius de Boodt, draughtsman: Elias Verhulst, draughtsman: Praag, draughtsman: Delft, 1596 - 1610, paper, brush, h 230 mm × w 153 mm

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