Guinea pig or Guinean pig (above) and an unnamed animal (below), probably a young pig or wild boar. Numbered top right: 2. 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 notes in Dutch, Latin and French., Guinea pig (Cavia porcellus) and pig 1. Indian rat. 2. / 1. Cuniculus indicus 2. / 1. Cochon d'inde 2., draughtsman: Anselmus Boëtius de Boodt, draughtsman: Elias Verhulst, intermediary draughtsman: Joris Hoefnagel, draughtsman: Praag, draughtsman: Delft, 1596

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