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Apothecary Rose [Rosa gallica],
Book of Flower Studies
c. 1510–1515
Master of Claude de France (Met Museum)
On his feast day #otd, 13 June, Saint Anthony of Padua
Possibly after Bartolomé Estéban Murillo, 1618-1682
(Art Institute Chicago)
Saint Anthony of Padua whose feast is #otd 13 June.
El Greco [Domenikos Theotokopoulos], c. 1580
(Museo Nacional del Prado)
12 June 1549: Eight year-old Lady Jane Seymour (niece of Queen Janes) writes #otd to theologians Martin Bucer & Paul Fagius thanking them for their gift of books. In 1557 the bodies of Bucer & Fagius were exhumed in #Cambridge & retrospectively burnt for heresy (GAP/BM/SJC)
11 June 1588: Possible birthdate #otd of the poet George Wither who very definitely was supported by Oliver Cromwell, for whom Wither wrote panegyrics (BM)
Four inhabitants of #Ireland: a noblewoman, a burgher's wife, and two 'wild' Irishmen, 1573-75.
Lucas De Heere, Corte Beschryvinghe van Engheland, Schotland, ende Irland (British Library Add MS 28330)
Flowering Prickly Pear Cactus, Herman Saftleven, 1683
(Rijksmuseum)
'The Honourable entertainment given to the Queenes Majestie in progresse at Eluetham in Hampshire'. London, 1591
(Royal Collection Trust, HM EII)