Musée No:325.107 parterre Male Study

Male Study

along with Edgar Degas

Artist: William H Harvey

He was imprisoned by the French for nearly 5 years on a charge of espionage (trumped up he claimed) for allegedly carrying messages to and from William

Musée No:325.107 parterre Male StudyDutch Natural History Watercolour Illustration Artist: Anselmus Botius de Boodt Date: 1596 1610 Anselmus Botius de Boodt was born in Bruges in 1550. He was a Flemish humanist, mineralogist, physician and naturalist and a gifted draughtsman. De Boodt joined the Emperors court in Bohemia as a medical doctor in 1588, and in 1604 he was put in charge of preparing the Historia Naturalis, an exquisitely illustrated encyclopaedia of the worlds then known