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A kitchen maid carrying carrots and an artichoke in a basket, Wenceslaus Hollar from Ornatus Muliebris Anglicanus, 1640.
(British Museum)
Portrait of Elizabeth Cromwell, wearing a hood, monkey over her right shoulder; frontispiece to 'Court and kitchen of Elizabeth Cromwell' (1664).
British Museum
Tulip [Tulipa], Anselmus Boëtius de Boodt, 1596 - 1610
(Rijksmuseum)
3 July 1656: Wenceslaus Hollar m. Honora Roberts at St. Giles-in-the-Fields #otd Hollar’s many images make up a large part of our visual vocabulary of early modern Britain & Ireland (BM - an image of him, for a change; I don't have one of her)
La Sage-Femme presentant au Roy [Louis XIII], Monseigneur le Dauphin.
(British Museum)
The future Louis XIV swaddled in fleur-de-lys.
The parable of Dives [Pope] & Lazarus [Martin Luther].
Dives is kissing a nun, & Lazarus is seated lower right. Outcome is top right.
Hanns Lautensack, 1556.
(British Museum)
For balance, it might be best to add that in real life Luther did kiss an ex-nun Katharina Van Bora.
Red lily [Lilium] and its bulb, Anselmus Boëtius de Boodt, 1596 - 1610
(Rijksmuseum)