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2/2 Down boy! Boys? Mad Meg calling off Cerberus while a group of further demons (including A+owl-headed one) flee her greedy wrath. From my colleague David Ryckaert.
Almost missed the birthday (1554) of Sir Philip Sidney. Poet, courtier, and in general the fairest flower of Elizabethan knighthood.
Cow. Drawn in 1663 by Adriaen van de Velde, a man who appreciated livestock. It’s his day today.
Henriette Adelaide of Savoy and Ferdinand of Bavaria managing to look both dashing and bloodthirsty (as Baroque aristocrats did) while hunting in 1660. Painted by Jan Miel, whose day is today.
3/3 Oberon, Titania, and Puck with the dancing fairies. A little light something from William Blake, c. 1786. It's been his day.
The magic banquet, 1815: illustration to Milton's Comus (way more fun than Milton ever envisioned) by William Blake, whose day is today.
2/2 Evil and good angels & unhappy child, 1800, by poet & artist William Blake.
2/2 Good morning! Satan arousing the Rebel Angels, by William Blake. Today is his day. (Blake, not Satan, as far as I know)