John McCaffertyさんのイラストまとめ

Apple (Malus domestica), Anselmus Boëtius de Boodt, 1596 - 1610.

(Rijksmuseum)

19 Aug 1648: Oliver Cromwell & John Lambert #defeat the #Scots forces at Preston #otd

(@MuseumCromwell/NPG)

Everhard Jabach (1618–1695) and His Family
c. 1660

By Charles Le Brun - who appears at work painting in the mirror to the right of his patron.

(Met Museum)

18 Aug 1626: Jeremy Taylor future devotional writer & bishop of Down & Connor admitted to Caius College
#Cambridge as a sizar #otd

18 Aug 1276: d. Adrian V
18 Aug 1503: d. Alexander VI
18 Aug 1559: d. Paul IV

A bad date for #Popes !

Folding Screen with Dutch ships, c. 1685 - c. 1700
Southern #China

Depicts the arrival of Dutch ships, and a hunting scene with Dutchmen. It all suggests that the depictions here catered to Chinese curiosity about the Europeans.

(Rijksmuseum)

16 Aug: feast of St. Roch, patron of plague victims, #dogs &c #otd (BM) Very popular in middle ages & early modern period for good reason. And being more remembered these days too

Christ Healing the Blind
ca. 1570
El Greco (Domenikos Theotokopoulos)

El Greco painted this either in Venice or in Rome, where he worked after leaving Crete in 1567 and before moving to Spain in 1576.

(Met Museum)

15 Aug 1651: At #Dublin, John Rogers Fifth Monarchist, proposes #otd that ministers from New England be sent to #Ireland

(University of Toronto Wenceslaus Hollar Digital Collection)

15 Aug 1552: John Bale ex-Carmelite #writer & polemical reformer meets Edward VI at #Southampton #otd & is promised the diocese of #Ossory in #Ireland (Bm/eebo)