Musée No:325.102 Size:A3 - 420mm x 297mm ) nature - believe me

) nature - believe me if you were a little woodland creature these would not be beauties you would want to meet

they look gorgeous together

he found he could make a living selling the specimens he found

He was never a healthy man and his death from tuberculosis in 1890 prompted this eulogy from the Academy “His kindly and blameless life was one of many struggles …

Interested by the changing light of sun and sea

Musée No:325.102 Size:A3 - 420mm x 297mm ) nature - believe meDutch 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