Unknown fish, An unidentified fish. According to the inscription a 'kopfffisch' caught near Salzburg. Numbered top right: 2. 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 explanations in Dutch, Latin and French, bony fishes, Anselmus Boetius de Boodt, 1596 - 1610, paper, pencil, chalk, watercolor (paint), deck paint, ink, pen, h 105 mm × w 151 mm