Caption:
Women's shoe (Cypripedium calceolus), Papen Schoe. / Calcolus Mariae. / Sabot ou Soulier de nôtre Dame (title on object), Orchid women's shoe or Venus shoe. Numbered top right: 62. Here also the name in three languages. Part of the first album with drawings of flowers and plants. Eighth 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: orchid, Anselmus Boetius de Boodt, 1596 - 1610, paper, watercolor (paint), deck paint, chalk, ink, pen, h 312 mm × w 170 mm