John McCaffertyさんのイラストまとめ

29 Mar 1577: Sir Philip Sidney arrives at #Nuremberg #otd where at dinner he explains why there were no wolves in #England & he talks of #Ireland where he had visited his father Henry the Lord Deputy (NPG)

29 Mar 609: d. Eustasius, 2nd abbot of Luxeuil after St Coumbanus #otd @PeritiaEditors @VoxHib

Bouquet of flowers, anonymous, 1680 (Rijksmuseum) A combination of field flowers and cultivated exotics. I love getting flowers as a gift.

28 Mar 1592: John Amos Comenius in the Margraviate of Moravia #otd - an advocate of lively, stimulating & universal education. We are all for that!

As the parts of the Royal Canal #Dublin where I usually see them are mainly outside the 2km exercise radius of home there won’t be any swan pictures for a while. So here’s a random selection from the past months & years. #stayatHome

27 Mar 1636: Archbishop William Laud writes to Kenelm Digby #otd deploring his 'unreasonable' return to #Roman communion (NPG)

27 Mar 710: d. St Rupert #otd, Bishop of Worms as well as the first Bishop of Salzburg and abbot of St. Peter's in Salzburg. Patron of Salzburg #Austria and of salt-miners

26 Mar 1548: Miles Coverdale, #Bible translator tells Calvin #otd that he is returning to #England after 8 years exile #otd @DrStevenMFoster

This is an amazing survival. The Nativity, in Coffer
c. 1490 #French (MetMuseum)
"This woodcut & coffer are a very unusual survival of a print in its original context. Incredibly, 10 other impressions of this stencil-colored, mass-produced Nativity survive, all also in boxes"

25 Mar 1677: d. Wenclesaus Hollar whose work has informed the visual vocabulary and imagination of so many historians and also #twitterstorians #otd. (BM)