Pepper plant (Capsicum annuum); Indian Pepper / Piper Brasilicum. / Poivre du Br閟il (title on object); Pepper plant with chili peppers. Numbered top right: 317. Top right the different names. Part of the fourth album with drawings of flowers and mushrooms. Eleventh 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; chalk; ink; pen; h 230 mm x w 159 mm