Nature Studies (manuscript)

Nature Studies (Naturstudien)
National Library of Austria, Vienna
Drawing of an elephant
Author(s)Joris Hoefnagel, Giuseppe Arcimboldo, Daniel Fröschl, Ludger tom Ring the Younger, Hans Verhagen de Stomme and Johannes Wierix
AccessionCod. Min. 42

Nature Studies is an album or codex containing 170 drawings dating principally from the 16th century made by various artists. The drawings are naturalistic depictions of plants, birds, animals, insects, fish and landscape vedute. The album was compiled in the beginning of the 17th century and was originally in the collection of the Holy Roman Emperor Rudolf II. It is currently in the collection of the National Library of Austria in Vienna.

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