Prof Claire Jowitt - @clairejowitt.bsky.socialさんのイラストまとめ

Ship of Virtues tapestry, c16, Netherlands; ⛵️ crew = 6 women & 4 men = personifications of virtues: Hope, Mercy, Perseverance, Divine Comfort, Loyal Heart, Faith, Charity, Patience, Good Will, & Prudence needed on life's journey, pushing away sins/demons lurking in sea #seafever

Winter Solstice, 1674 - gorgeous celestial cartography ... https://t.co/fjpzCAWsZZ
Inching back into the light, day-by-day

Splendid Anglo-Nubian Goat & a Ram, c1400-10, Italian, Brush drawing in watercolour & boycolour, on vellum @britishmuseum 🐐🐏
https://t.co/r1Zn33Jzo7

Two Mice, Joris Hoefnagel, 1594; this drawing was made by Hoefnagel for his friend Johannes Muisenhol from Frankfurt; the scene refers to his surname (mouse hole), while the extinguished candle & the gnawed walnut stand for the transience of life @rijksmuseum 🐭🐁

Unenthusiastic description of cacao (chocolate) when new to Europe 'a fruit well knowne in divers parts of America ... the fruit is ... of an astringent and ungratefull taste' from Gerard's Herball (orig. 1597); this copy = 1636 reprint & is probably Charles I's copy @RCT 🍫

New stamp, Sovereign of the Seas, built Woolwich Dockyard 1637 as personal project of Charles I, richly decorated, designed by dramatist Thomas Heywood;⛵️= long career with action in Anglo-Dutch Wars; destroyed by fire1697 #sharesomethinglovely 283/365 https://t.co/RoMiQRsIw8

Luna & Mercury, plaster panel from Stodmarsh Court, Kent, 1590-1610, fragment in grisaille (monochrome), from frieze from top of room; lower right = astrologer & alchemist, who turn base metals to gold = L & M's influence on health/fortune #sharesomehinglovely 276/365 @V_and_A

Jonah & the Whale, Folio from Jami al-Tavarikh (Compendium of Chronicles), c1400. Jonah, released from belly of fish + gourd vine sent by God to protect him from elements + angel with colourful spreading wings offers him a garment #sharesomethinglovely 83/365 #seafever @metmuseum

Elizabeth I & her Dragon (Francis Drake/El Drake/the dragon), with army at Tilbury & Armada in the background (c.1625). Important image, reviving memories of maritime prowess to comment on its lack under Stuart kings.
Elizabetha Angliae et Hiberniae Reginae &c
@britishmuseum