Album met voorstellingen van paarden, BI-1893-3601

This image displays the external binding of a print collection, featuring blue and black mottled paper and a parchment spine. The surface shows significant wear, including scratches and losses to the paper, characteristic of a functional archival volume from the early modern period.

While showing only the binding, this object represents the encyclopedic impulse of the Dutch Golden Age to document the natural world. This transition toward empirical animal studies reflects a shift in natural philosophy away from purely symbolic medieval representation toward the systematic observation that characterized the seventeenth-century intellectual landscape.