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Woman Reading, c. 1606–69 Rembrandt van Rijn (Met Museum) It looks that she's enjoying her text.
St. Bernard's Lily [Anthericum liliago] with a blue ladybeetle, Book of Flower Studies
c. 1510–1515
Master of Claude de France (Met Museum)
9 June 1449: Mary of Guelders leaves Sluys #otd in a fleet of 14 ships. She & James II of #Scots were married on 3 July at Holyrood. The engraving below is of a tableau vivant depicting their marriage mounted in 1642 at Queen Henrietta Maria’s entry to #Amsterdam (BM)
Two 17th century visual reworkings of St. Colmcille or Columba of Iona whose feast it is #otd on 9 June, d. 597. Both turn him into a #Benedictine. (JMcC/BM)
Autumn Buttercup [Ranunculus bullatus] with a holly blue butterfly, Book of Flower Studies
c. 1510–1515
Master of Claude de France (Met Museum)
Flowering Prickly Pear Cactus, Herman Saftleven, 1683
(Rijksmuseum)
7 June, feast of St Willibald of #Wessex who died c.787 as bishop of Eichstätt in Bavaria after many travels (Rensi/BM)
7 June 1660: Arrest of Hugh Peter, Independent leader & preacher during the Commonwealth, ordered #otd (BM)