Black sneeze (Veratrum nigrum) White sneeze with red flower. / Elleborus albus flore Rubro. / Viraire (title on object); black sneeze; also known as false black hellebore. Numbered top right: 248. Top right the name in six languages. Part of the third album with drawings of flowers and plants. Tenth 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 250 mm 脙鈥?w 180 mm