John McCaffertyさんのイラストまとめ

Ceremonial thrones of Tsar Alexis Mikhailovich (Alexis I). 1659

(British Museum)

#otd 31 July 1607, Jahangir, the Mughal emperor of India, ordered his son Prince Khurram to be weighed against gold and silver and other metals as part his 15th birthday celebration.

(British Museum)

The coins were then distributed to the needy.

Queen Esther Approaching the Palace of Ahasuerus
1658
Claude Lorrain

(Met Museum)

30 July 1643: Kenelm Digby courtier, experimenter, MP, royalist, Catholic released from the custody of #Parliament #otd on promise of good behaviour. He (wisely) made for #France straight away. Soon he was Henrietta Maria's envoy to the Vatican.
(NPG)

17th century moustache grooming.

The barber makes house calls to carry out the curling, while his assistant heats the tongs.

Abraham Bosse, c. 1632-35.

(British Museum)

30 July 1560: #Protestant theologians Matin Bucer & Paul Fagius posthumously restored to honour in the University of #Cambridge #otd at a ceremony in Great St Mary's. In 1557 their bodies had been exhumed & retrospectively burnt for heresy (BM)

Lucas van Valckenborch, 1574
Peasant Wedding. The Wedding Dance in the open Air

(Statens Museum for Kunst, Danmark)

29 July 1588: Martin Frobisher's 'The Triumph' again clashes protractedly with the #Spanish flagship the 'San Martín' off #Gravelines #otd #Armada

The wheel of life, after Cornelis Anthonisz., 1558 (Rijksmuseum)

Monogrammist SI

Eve Spinning, c. 1600 – 1625.

When Adam delved and Eve span/
Who then was the gentleman?

(Städel Museum, Frankfurt am Main)