Civet cat, alpine marmot, two leopards and a tiger. Numbered upper right: 15. 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, Civet cat (Viverra), alpine marmot (Marmota marmota), leopard (Panthera pardus) and tiger (Panthera tigris) Genetha crocuta 1. / Mus Alpinus 2. / Pardus. Panthera Pardalis. Leopardus 3. / Tigris. 4. / Tigris. 5., draughtsman: Anselmus Boëtius de Boodt, draughtsman: Elias Verhulst, draughtsman

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