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Wild Boar (Sus scrofa)
Anselmus Boëtius de Boodt (mentioned on object), 1596 - 1610
When the Bruges mayor Joseph van Huerne rebound the albums from the Historia Naturalis in the early 18th century, he had the drawings mounted on folios with ruled borders, with the name of each creature written in the Dutch, Latin and French forms of the time. He also commissioned contemporary artists to add watercolourforegrounds and settings, which, in this case, overlays De Boodt’s monogram.
- Artwork typedrawing
- Object numberRP-T-BR-2017-1-1-39
- Dimensionsheight 130 mm x width 189 mm
- Physical characteristicspenseel in waterverf en dekverf in kleuren, gehoogd met witte dekverf