Tagetes; only Velvet Bloeme. / flos tunetanus simplex. / oeuilles d'inde Simples. (title on object); Dark orange marigolds. Numbered top right: 64. Top left the Latin name. Part of the first album with drawings of flowers and plants. Eighth 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; flowers (with NAME); Anselmus Boetius de Boodt; 1596 - 1610; paper; watercolor (paint); deck paint; chalk; ink; pen; h 299 mm x w 175 mm