Bittersweet (Solanum dulcamara); Eleven slender. / Amara dulcis. / Solanum niorelle (title on object); Bittersweet; eleven-rank or climbing nightshade. With a mosquito or fly. Numbered top right: 72. Top left the Latin and Dutch name. 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; insects; Anselmus Boetius de Boodt; 1596 - 1610; paper; watercolor (paint); deck paint; chalk; ink; pen; h 263 mm x w 170 mm