Cassowary. With details of a feather and an egg. Numbered top right: 32. Part of the first album with drawings of birds. Third 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, Helmkasuaris (Casuarius casuarius) Casuaris. / Emeu. / Casoar., draughtsman: Anselmus Boëtius de Boodt, draughtsman: Elias Verhulst, draughtsman: Praag, draughtsman: Delft, 1596 - 1610, paper, brush, pen, h 317 mm × w 175 mm

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