John McCaffertyさんのイラストまとめ

15 Aug 1660: Charles II's visitors to #Oxford order removal of 'intruded' fellows & restoration of 'lawful & undoubted' fellows #otd

Red lily (Lilium), Anselmus Boëtius de Boodt, 1596 - 1610

(Rijksmuseum)

Figure of Charles I wandering in the wilderness of Doubt with dragon, leopard, lamb, hind and weapons of war around him; plate altered from one of Hollar's series of 'Emblemata Nova'. c. 1641-1650

(British Museum)

13 Aug 1648: Oliver Cromwell joins forces with John Lambert at Knaresborough #otd They then proceed to defeat the #Scots at Preston 17-19 Aug
(@MuseumCromwell/NPG)

On the date he became Chief Minister of #France, 13 Aug 1624, I am liking Richelieu enthroned here.

Michel Lasne, before 1667.
Armand Jean du Plessis, Cardinal Richelieu

(Washington Gallery of Art)

13 Aug 1553: Arrest of Michael Servetus anti-Trinitarian thinker at #Geneva #otd He was burnt on 27 Oct on a pyre of his own books (McGovern)

13 Aug 1521: The capture of Cuauhtémoc & so control of Tenochtitlan [#Mexico city] passes to Cortés conquistador #otd

(Kislak/Prado)

Gerrit Pietersz., Dutch, 1566 - 1612.
Saint Francis Receiving the Stigmata, 1608.

(The J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles)

Endymion Porter and Anthony van Dyck

By Anthony van Dyck, c. 1633

(Museo Nacional del Prado)

Porter, courtier art dealer & collector for Charles I along with his protégé Van Dyck. Rare to see a portrait of a patron & an artist, done by the latter.

12 Aug 1642: Jerome Weston, 2nd Earl of Portland, sent to the Tower #otd by the House of Lords on suspicion of complicity in a plot to deliver Portsmouth into the King's hands (British Museum)