Study of a Goat's Deformed Hoof

This drawing is on folio 23r of Codex min. 42.

Studies of the monstrously grown hooves of a goat, with a comment in Italian,, surely written in Arcimboldo’s hand - one is dated as early as 1563 - are stylistically close to the studies of animals that can be seen in almost identical positions and stances in the composite head of Earth.