Purple iris (Iris germanica) Kleene Blue and Purple iris flowers / irides parvae Coerulcae et Violacae. / Petites iris Couleur Bleue et Violet (title on object); Three small purple irises. Numbered top right: 212. Part of the third album with drawings of flowers and plants. Tenth of twelve albums with drawings of animals; birds and plants known around 1600; commissioned by Emperor Rudolf II. With explanations in Dutch; Latin and French.; Flowers (with NAME); Anselmus Boetius de Boodt; 1596 - 1610; paper; watercolor (paint); deck paint; chalk; brush; h 235 mm x w 162 mm