American bird cherry (Prunus serotina) Vremde wild Keersen. / Cerasus Avium. / Seneve Sauvage. (title on object); American bird cherry. Branch with leaves; flowers and fruits. Numbered top right: 126. 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.; Anselmus Boetius de Boodt; 1596 - 1610; paper; watercolor (paint); deck paint; ink; chalk; pen; h 236 mm x w 181 mm