John McCaffertyさんのイラストまとめ

18 May 1554: William Thomas #translator is hanged, drawn, quartered at Tyburn for encompassing the death of Mary I of #England (BM) He’d already botched suicide by stabbing himself in the Tower of #London on 25 Feb.

Virgin and Child Crowned by Angels
c 1490-1495 by Colyn de Coter (Art Institute Chicago)

16 May 1612: Marriage contract of Elizabeth Stuart & Frederick V signed; wedding was 14 Feb 1613 #otd A union with many many consequences.

15 May 1556: John Knox appears in #Edinburgh #otd surrounded by so many supporters that the ecclesiastical authorities quietly dropped various processes against him (BM)

Order of the Chevaliers Marching at Fontainebleau #otd on 14 May 1633 (Met Museum)
Abraham Bosse, 1634

Wenceslaus Hollar, Elephant, monkey & flowers (University of Toronto)

Lotus, c. 1600 - 1625 from Zhengyen Hu [Ten Bamboos Studio] #China (Rijksmuseum)

Tableau of the Glorification of Agriculture, done for the entrance of Archduke Albert & Archduchess Isabella to #Antwerp in 1599. Jupiter surrounded by personifications of agriculture. At top Abundance feeds a multitude of children. A little dog does what it has to (Rijksmuseum)

Hazelnut [Corylus avellane] with a jaybird, Book of Flower Studies c. 1510-15, Master of Claude de France (Met Museum)

12 May 1562: Ecclesiastical High Commission declares the clandestine marriage of Katherine Grey & Edward Seymour, Earl of Hertford null #otd. She remained imprisoned till her death in 1568 due to her claims to the throne (Sotheby's)