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A broadside with a rebus, satirising in form of a gypsy's prophecy Frederick V's defeat at the White Mountain & subsequent flight; with an etching showing a gypsy woman reading Frederick's hand, and with engraved title and dialogue text. [1621]
(British Museum)
12 Sept 1605: b. William Dugdale, herald and important antiquary #otd at Shustoke, near Coleshill in Warwickshire
(U Toronto)
Here's a #nuntastic Gilbertine from his very influential Monasticon Anglicanum, 1655–1673 (British Museum)
10 Sept: Feast of St. Aubert of #Avranches who was ordered by Archangel Michael to start the construction of what became Mont Saint-Michel (GuildhallAG)
The Pater Familias, study for a print; an interior with the father carefully feeding his baby, watched by his wife who holds some laundry in front of the fire-place
Adriaen van Ostade, c. 1648.
A side of 17thC masculinity you don't often see depicted.
(British Museum)
9 Sept 1569: d. Pieter Breughel the elder #painter & #printermaker #otd in #Brussels
9 Sept 1674: d. Murrough O'Brien 1st Earl of Inchiquin #otd (Manchester Gallery of Art/ British Museum)
8 Sept 1637: d. Robert Fludd, physician, cabbalist & writer on the occult #otd (BM)