Cornflower (Centaurea cyanus) diversche Couleuren van Koorn Bloemen. / Cijanus variis Coloribus. / Bluets the different Couleurs. Casse lunette (title on object). Cornflowers in white. purple and blue. With a snail. Numbered top right: 291. Top left the n

Cornflower (Centaurea cyanus) diversche Couleuren van Koorn Bloemen. / Cijanus variis Coloribus. / Bluets the different Couleurs. Casse lunette (title on object). Cornflowers in white. purple and blue. With a snail. Numbered top right: 291. Top left the name in Latin and Dutch. 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 explanations in Dutch. Latin and French. flowers (with NAME). molluscs: snail. Anselmus Boetius de Boodt. 1596 - 1610. paper. watercolor (paint). deck paint. chalk. ink. pen. h 268 mm — w 165 mm. (Photo by: Sepia Times/Universal Images Group via Getty Images)