Blue and purple irises (Iris germanica) Kleene Blue and Purple iris flowers / irides parvae Coerulae et Violacae. / Des iris Bleu et Couleur Violettes petite espêce. (title on object), Three blue and purple irises. Numbered top right: 203. Part of the third album with drawings of flowers and plants. Tenth of twelve albums with drawings of animals, birds and plants known around 1600, commissioned by Emperor Rudolf II. With explanations in Dutch, Latin and French, flowers (with NAME), Anselmus Boetius de Boodt, 1596 - 1610, paper, watercolor (paint), deck paint, chalk, brush, h 220 mm × w 160

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