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Common Milkweed
Anselmus Boëtius de Boodt, 1596 - 1610
This drawing of a milkweed plant was certainly not done from life. Various stages of flowering, which in reality never occur at the same time, are shown simultaneously on a single branch. The plant bears both flowers and seedpods. It is more a generic image of the milkweed than a portrait of a specific specimen. De Boodt did this deliberately to facilitate identification.
- Artwork typedrawing
- Object numberRP-T-BR-2017-1-10-60
- Dimensionsheight 243 mm x width 161 mm
- Physical characteristicspenseel in waterverf en dekverf over zwart krijt, gehoogd met witte dekverf, handschrift in pen in bruin