Leaf with thirteen mosquitoes; Mugghen. / Cousins. (title on object); Leaf with twelve mosquitoes and crane fly and a wasp-like insect; numbered 1-13. Numbered top right: 3. 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; insects: mosquito; insects: wasp; insects (CRANE FLY); Anselmus Boetius de Boodt; Praag; 1596 - 1610; paper; pencil; chalk; watercolor (paint); deck paint; ink; pen; h 290 mm x w 186 mm