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I meant to tweet this yesterday with all the other St. Patrick material: Some more Patrick in print - a 1493 image of the saint, and a late 17th century recalibration in which he has become an Augustinian Canon - both from the Rijksmuseum #StPatricksDay
Four views of #Purgatory - St. Patrick's #otd Purgatory at Lough Derg, 1654 (Hollar, BM); A satire on Purgatory (1650s Hollar, Met Museum); Machuca, 'The BVM and the souls in Purgatory', 1517 (Prado); Carracci , 'An angel frees souls from Purgatory' c. 1610 (Vatican)
15 Mar 44 BC: killing of Julius #Caesar #otd (1689 image from BM) #Rome #Shakespeare’s version - which so makes up our default view of this event - was first performed in 1599
14 Mar 1689: The Convention of Estates meet in #Edinburgh to declare throne of #Scotland vacant #otd & to proclaim William & Mary (BM)
St Roch and the Angel
by Annibale Carracci,1560–1609.
(The Fitzwilliam Museum) Roch, whose wound was cured by the licking of a dog, is patron of plague victims. This isn’t like early modern plagues, but it is worth recalling his cult as a memory of what our ancestors endured (BM)
11 Mar 1535: Richard Wharton sends one cock & four hen pheasants to Thomas Cromwell which he said had been brought up by his wife 'in her chamber' #otd (BM)
9 Mar 1616: Francis Beaumont, playwright, interred in #Westminster Abbey near #Chaucer & #Spenser #otd
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6 Mar 1616: d. Francis Beaumont #otd, playwright, #poet, student of Ben Jonson, close collaborator with John Fletcher. Buried in #Westminster Abbey in May 1616. (NPG)