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Frontispiece from Thomas Sprat's "The History of the Royal Society of London"
1667
Wenceslaus Hollar
(Met Museum)
Chrysanthemum,
Anselmus Boëtius de Boodt, 1596 - 1610
(Rijksmuseum)
3 June 1654 ns: d. Alethea Howard, 14th Baroness Talbot, 17th Baroness Strange of Blackmere, 13th Baroness Furnivall, Countess of Arundel, 1585-1654 in Amsterdam #otd
She was a contributor to this 1655 receipt book.
(Alte Pinakothek/U Toronto/eebo)
River Landscape with a Woman Carrying a Basket on her Head, Fishermen and Other Figures near the Walls of a Town, Hendrick Avercamp, before c. 1620.
(Rijkmuseum)
A Witches’ Sabbath
c. 1650
Cornelis Saftleven
(Art Institute Chicago)
The artist died #otd 1 June 1681.
Pair of Lovers in a Formal Garden,
Gesina ter Borch, 18 June 1658
(Rijksmuseum)
College of Animals, Cornelis Saftleven, 1655
The artist died #otd 1 June 1681.
A satire on contemporary academic life.
Among other things, Amadis of Gaul appears to be on the reading list.
(Dallas Museum of Art)
Battalia the stone-eater,
Wenceslaus Hollar.
The pebbles and red wine diet.
(University of Toronto)