Houting (Coregonus oxyrinchus); Houtijng. Smelt. / Sphijrena fluviatalis. (title on object); Houting. Numbered top right: 8. Bottom left the name in three languages. Part of the sixth album with drawings of fish; shells and insects. Sixth 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; bony fishes (with NAME); Anselmus Boetius de Boodt; 1596 - 1610; paper; pencil; chalk; watercolor (paint); deck paint; ink; lacquer (coating); pen; h 128 mm x w 294 mm