John McCaffertyさんのイラストまとめ

Distillation
from the series new inventions and discoveries, Philips Galle after Jan van der Straet, c. 1589 - c. 1593

16 June 1623: John Lambe astrologer & quack doctor indicted for rape #otd
On 13 June 1628 he would be stoned to death by a #London crowd.

This title is just too good not be shared:
"Psyche Served in Her Bath by Nymphs She Cannot See"
c. 1530-1540
(Art Institute Chicago)

16 June 1581: William Watson, seminary priest, enters #England disguised as a sailor #otd (BM)

Papaver somniferum [Opium Poppy]
Hans Simon Holtzbecker, c. 1635-1644.

(Statens Museum for Kunst, Danmark)

Adam and Eve at Work
Domenico Fetti, c.1589–1624.

Eve is spinning, evoking the themes of clothing and of the loss of innocence. Adam is ploughing the land. Cain and Abel, their children, are also here.
(The Samuel Courtauld Trust, The Courtauld Gallery, London)
#TheFall

Rutger van Langevelt
Interior of a Dutch Church, 1659.

Amazing detail in this, but my favourite is the woman pointing out the place to someone who is perhaps her daughter.

(Statens Museum for Kunst, Danmark)

15 June 1623: b. Cornelis de Witt who was second to Lieutenant-Admiral Michiel de Ruyter in the raid on the Medway in 1667. Cornelis was killed on the same day as his brother Johan 20 Aug 1672 (The 2nd image is of their lynched bodies, Rijksmuseum)

Essays of Sir William Cornwallis MP (the younger) 1632.
I love that he's shown studying on one side and then writing on the other.

Cornwallis was on Essex's Irish campaign of 1599. A friend of John Donne, he died in 1614.

(British Museum)

Apothecary Rose [Rosa gallica],
Book of Flower Studies
c. 1510–1515
Master of Claude de France (Met Museum)