White cabbage (Brassica oleracea) White Cauwel. / Brassica alba sessilis. glomerata aut Capitata. / Choux Blanc. (title on object); White cabbage (slightly purple; but no red cabbage). Numbered top right: 149. With the cabbage the Latin names. 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 explanation in Dutch; Latin and French.; Plants and herbs: cabbage; Anselmus Boetius de Boodt; 1596 - 1610; paper; watercolor (paint); deck paint; ink; chalk; pen; h 181 mm x w 255 mm