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Midwives in action, 1580

#InternationalDayoftheMidwife 5 May

(From 'De conceptu et generatione hominis', Frankfurt: Rab for Feyerabend, 1580. British Museum)

5 May 1586: Following the death of her father, Henry Sidney former Lord Deputy of Ireland #otd, Mary Herbert Sidney #poet & Countess of Pembroke retires to Wilton (NPG)

5 May 1642: John Williams of Conwy, Archbishop of #York is released on bail #otd (BM)

He was enthroned at York on 27 June 1642. How many other bishops have been enthroned while on bail?

Snow in Summer (Cerastium tomentosum) with blue, orange and yellow butterfly,
Book of Flower Studies c. 1510-15, Master of Claude de France (Met Museum)

Concert
Gerrit van Honthorst, 1624.

(Musée du Louvre)

Portrait of Giovanni Lorenzo Bernini
Attributed to Salvator Rosa

(British Museu)

View of Toledo
c. 1599–1600
El Greco or Domenikos Theotokopoulos

(Met Museum)

28 Apr 1558: Walter Mylne executed in St. Andrews #otd - he was the last #Protestant to be burnt in #Scotland before the kingdom itself officially turned #Protestant

Helena van der Schalcke, Gerard ter Borch (II), c. 1648. if you look closely at the back of her dress you can see her walking reins. She's aged about 4 here. A lovely painting (Rijksmuseum)

Albrecht Dürer,

Bird with wings outstretched, a scroll above inscribed: "GI GI GIG". 1513

(British Museum)