Mary Evans Picture Libraryさんのイラストまとめ

Mary Queen of Scots, whose story is told on-screen in cinemas at the moment, was executed at Fotheringhay Castle #OTD in 1587, after her death warrant was signed by her cousin, Elizabeth I.

It's February and, looking out of the window, it doesn't look much better than January. But here's a lovely art nouveau design by Gaspar Camps to perk us all up.

See, we've even got squirrels in blue dresses, therefore straddling both #BlueMonday and #SquirrelAppreciationDay Illustration by #MollyBrett in the Medici Society archive.

All of us here who've seen #TheFavourite at the cinema have loved it. Portraits of the real women in that rather strained love triangle - Queen Anne (from Drawing Room ceiling at Hampton Court via @HRP_palaces archive) + Abigail Masham + Sarah Churchill by Godfrey Kneller

It's #NationalHatDay, apparently! Among the 53,000 images of titfers of all shapes and sizes we have here @Mary_Evans are these satires from c1900 on the fashion for women to wear huge and enveloping hats. Postcard illustrations by 'B. L.' from the Grenville Collins collection

"Treat your friends as you do your pictures and place them in their best light". Wise words from Jennie Jerome, later Lady Randolph Churchill, mother of Winston Churchill (and in her latter years, Mrs Cornwallis-West) born #OTD 1845, who was a portraitist's dream.

'You'd be tickled pink if you could see me now' by American #pinup artist #MerlinEnabnit, published #OTD in The Sketch, 1940. If only we all felt ready to don a pink swimsuit on the 3rd January.

Off to a panto over the #Christmas holidays? #otd 1930, flyer for Cinderella at the Theatre Royal, Huddersfield which included a harlequinade which was a rarity at this date. From our fabulous Michael Diamond collection @Mary_Evans #behindyou #panto #thighslapping #cinderella

Inside a gipsy caravan, Latimer Road by W. H. Overend, published in The Illustrated London News #OnThisDay #OTD in 1879

Spanish edition of Gustave Flaubert's novel of marital malaise, Madame Bovary. The French novelist was born #OTD in 1821.