John McCaffertyさんのイラストまとめ

30 Aug 1640: The #Scots army occupies #Newcastle upon Tyne #otd (BM)

29 Aug : Feast of the beheading of John the Baptist #otd Salome waits to collect .. (British Museum)

28 Aug 1612: b. Marcus Zuerius van Boxhorn in Bergen op Zoom, future professor at the University of Leiden.

He discovered the similarity among Indo-European languages, and postulated the existence of a primitive common language which he called 'Scythian'.

Woman Painting a Portrait,
by Elisabetta Sirani, b. 1638, d. #otd 28 Aug 1665.

(The Hermitage Museum)

28 Aug 1647: James Butler, Earl of Ormond leaves #Ireland #otd for royalist exile on the continent (NPG) Later he would become a very infuential adviser to the exiled Charles II.

For #InternationalDogDay two 1650s dogs, each as modish as their master from the inimitable Gesina Ter Borch

(Rijksmuseum)

26 Aug 1596 ns: b. Frederick V #otd future husband of Elizabeth Stewart of #Scotland & future King of #Bohemia

25 Aug 1270: d. St Louis IX King of #France - an archetypical royal saint #otd (A fantastic El Greco imagining of him here)

24 Aug 1680: d. Ferdinand Bol #artist at #Amsterdam #otd
Godfrey Kneller, later influential court painter in England, was his pupil

Red cabbage (Brassica oleracea convar. capitata var. rubra), Anselmus Boëtius de Boodt, 1596 - 1610.

(Rijksmuseum)