Three-fingered sloth. Numbered upper right: 12. With the name in Latin. Two-line annotation in Dutch added to the sheet. 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 explanation in Dutch, Latin and French, Three-fingered Sloth (Bradypus) Luijaerd. / ignavus. / l'unau, l'ai le paresseux, draughtsman: Anselmus Boëtius de Boodt, (mentioned on object), Praag, 1596 - 1605, paper, brush, pen, h 175 mm × w 183 mm

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