John McCaffertyさんのイラストまとめ

23 Jan 1606: 4 days before his execution Everard Digby, Gunpowder Plotter, writes a final letter to his children including Kenelm - below. Kenelm would be a privateer , duellist & much else as well as Henrietta Maria’s representative to the Papacy in the 1640s (NPG)

Execution of William Laud in a Dutch broadside as a NS date, making it 20 Jan 1645

(British Museum)

17th century images of women sewing, including the Virgin Mary who sews alongside her companions and assorted angels

Adriaen Van Ostade
Gerbrand van den Eeckhout
Gerard Ter Borch II
Hieronymus Wierix

(British Museum)

Adoration of the Magi from the collections of the Prado:

Hieronymous Bosch, 1494
Luis de Morales, 1565-1570
Velazquez, 1619
Rubens, 1609

(Museo Nacional del Prado)

6 Jan 1540: Henry VIII's marriage to Anne of Cleves goes ahead #otd

Archbishop Cranmer officiates over what will be annulled in July

(British Museum)

30 Dec 1654: Augustine Garland and Sir Anthony Ashley Cooper move #otd that Lord Protector Oliver Cromwell be crowned

(British Museum)

Broadside on the Turkish siege of Vienna; with a hand-coloured woodcut by Sebald Beham depicting the Grand Vizier Ibrahim Pasha on horseback, with a letterpress letter above from Ibrahim Pasha in German translation. ([Nuremberg] Guldenmundt: 1529, British Museum)

Sepals Beham, 1546/47: The Peasants' Festival and Twelve Months

November ‘Martin Wintermonth’ [Martinmas]
December ‘Nicholas Christmonth’ [Christmas]

(British Museum)

Portrait of King Charles IX as a young boy, when Duc d’Orleans, c.1555
François Clouet

(British Museum)

Clouet was b. #otd 22 Dec 1510