Stock Photo - Pepper (Piper nigrum) and peony (Paeonia), Pepper and peony. A bird is in the pepper bush. FIGs. 27 and 28 on a sheet numbered by hand 14. In: Anselmi Boetii de Boot I.C. Brugensis & Rodolphi II. Imp. Novel. medici a cubiculis Florum, Herbarum, ac fructuum selectiorum icones, & vires pleraeque hactenus ignotæ. Part of the album with sheets and plates from De Boodts herbarium from 1640. The twelfth of twelve albums with watercolors of animals, birds and plants known around 1600, commissioned by Emperor Rudolf II, anonymous, Southern Netherlands, 1640, paper, ink, watercolor (paint), engraving, h 135 mm × w 205 mm h 160 mm × w 230 mm