Cuckoo flower, probably the day cuckoo flower, one single flowered, the other double flowered. Numbered upper right: 145. With the flowers the name in five languages and an inscription in Dutch. Part of the second album with drawings of flowers and plants. Ninth 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, Koekoeksbloem (Silene dioica) Wilden Basilie. / Ocijmiodes flore pleno. / Basilie Sauvage, draughtsman: Anselmus Boëtius de Boodt, draughtsman: Elias Verhulst, draughtsman

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