Wild or Arabian sheep and African goat in a landscape with trees. Numbered top right: 8. At the top the names in Latin and French. 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, Wild sheep (Ovis) and African goat (Capra) 1. Arabian Sheep 2. Africaenschen Ram. / Ovis Arabica. 2. Caper Africanus. / Brebis d'arabie 2. Bellier d'afrique, draughtsman: Anselmus Boëtius de Boodt, draughtsman: Elias Verhulst, draughtsman: Praag

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