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Deer (Cervidae)
Anselmus Boëtius de Boodt, 1596 - 1610
In the early 19th century the mayor of Bruges, Van Huerne, had the Historia Naturalis rebound. The drawings were pasted onto pages provided with framing lines and the name of each creature inscribed in the Dutch, Latin and French forms of the time. Van Huerne also commissioned an artist to add surroundings and background to the drawings. This is how this deer came to stand on a woody patch of land.
- Artwork typedrawing
- Object numberRP-T-BR-2017-1-1-54
- Dimensionsheight 268 mm x width 178 mm
- Physical characteristicspenseel in waterverf en dekverf in kleuren, gehoogd met witte dekverf, handschrift in pen in bruin