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Sheet with Spiders
Anselmus Boëtius de Boodt, 1596 - 1610
This sheet features 26 different species of spiders. For most of these eight-legged creatures, De Boodt also rendered their shadows, making it seem as if they are crawling across the paper. The term ‘kobben’ for spiders – inscribed at the lower left within the framing line –occurs in West Flanders, where the albums were when the mayor of Bruges, Joseph van Huerne, owned them.
- Artwork typedrawing
- Object numberRP-T-BR-2017-1-6-89
- Dimensionsheight 293 mm x width 183 mm
- Physical characteristicspenseel in waterverf en dekverf in kleuren over potlood of zwart krijt, gehoogd met witte dekverf, handschrift in pen in bruin