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#Earlymodern dog lovers beware: best jug #design ever. Enea Vico, c.1533 - 1567, coll. #rijksmuseum https://t.co/gJdLzlgiux
Totally, totally weird #earlymodern image: Mr Lemmengast cannot divorce from his adulterous wife due to Cath. Church, and therefore sells her together with his house, while he nailed her ear to the wall. Balthazar van den Bos after M. van Cleve (I), ca.1528-80, coll.#rijksmuseum
Earliest and only individual portrait of a black African, c.1525-30, coll. #rijksmuseum. On his bonnet there is a gold or silver-gilt pilgrim’s badge of Our Lady of Hall in Belgium, which can also a interpreted as a sign of his Christianity and trustworthiness.
#Earlymodern #fakenews: the "camel-man" #cannibal from #Hungary in different English, Dutch and German news items and various shapes. Finally caught by King William III in September at Limerick in 1690 and brought to #London.
#Holdmybeer: #earlymodern gable stone on former 'Bierdragershuisje' in #Amsterdam, depicting #beer carriers, c. 1651, demolished in 1829, coll. @stadsarchief
Very convenient: #bookstore next to a #lingerie shop in #earlymodern shopping centre Galerie du Palais, #Paris by Abraham Bosse, c. 1637 - 1638, coll. #rijksmuseum
One critical note on the Pieter de Hooch exhibition in @HetPrinsenhof: it was a missed opportunity not to connect the typical #earlymodern red bricks, floor tiles and #delftware tiles of the #museum building with the topic of the paintings.
#Earlymodern slipware dish with Adam, Eve and monster snake found in Enkhuizen: it looks even better when colours are inverted. C1605, coll. @HuisvanHilde
One of the most beautiful #earlymodern slibware plates I have ever seen made in northern France or Flanders and found in Scotland, c.1612, coll. @HMV_Kassel
First polder of the Netherlands, Achtermeerpolder next to #Alkmaar, c.1532-33, hardly recognisable on heightmap. (thank you @envirosec for this tool!)