John McCaffertyさんのイラストまとめ

The School Mistress
c. 1638

Abraham Bosse

(Met Museum)

Shrove Tuesday or the Fool's Kitchen. One woman makes waffles, several others play instruments - to the right a fool being shaved by a nun

After Hieronymus Bosch, 1567

Bosch died #otd 9 Aug 1516.

(British Museum)

The Adoration of the Magi
Early 16th century
Hieronymus Bosch, who died #otd 9 Aug 1516

(Philadelphia Museum of Art)

Gloomy day (early spring)
By Pieter Bruegel the Elder, 1565

George Cattermole, 1800-1868, who illustrated several of the Dickens novels, here gives "Strafford blessed by Archbishop Laud on his way to execution" (British Museum) These Victorian visions of the 17th century are always so dashing & so weirdly comforting.

Francis of Assisi receives the stigmata
Attributed to Thomas Burgkmair, c. 1495-1500

(British Museum)

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

Mouse and Rat, unknown artist, c. 1560

(Rijksmuseum)

Vermis Sericus, c. 1595: Emperor Justinian Receiving the First Imported Silkworm Eggs from Nestorian Monks.

(V&A Museum, London)

Design for two egg holders, c. 1582-83.
Pen tinted with sepia.

One of a number of designs for gold- and silver-smiths' work by Erasmus Hornick & other Flemish, German &Italian artists who worked c. 1582-3 at the court of Rudolph II in Prague.

(Victoria & Albert Museum, London)