John McCaffertyさんのイラストまとめ

4 Apr 1628: Commissioners are appointed (under a 33 Hen VIII law) to boost #archery #otd They paid 1s per new bow cut.

The scheme ended 1631 in a scandal.

#cashforbows

Elephant, 1490, Martin Schongauer (Art Institute Chicago)

There's something quite lovely about the #nuntastic nun painted here by Gesina Ter Borch in 1657 (Rijksmuseum)

#April
The XII Mounthes of the Yeare in the Habits of Severall Nations, c. 1621/23:

This youth-full Month of April by the French
Why is it showne? is't cause they love to wench!
The suns in Taurus now, which may descry
Them given to Bulling, Hornes & Cuckoldry

(British Museum)

30 Mar 1655: Oliver Cromwell issues instructions for the 'government of that nation' - #Scotland - to 9 persons #otd (BM)

This wonderful 1652/53 depiction of washerwomen, also giving the text of their song is by the brilliant Gesina Ter Borch, 1633-1690

(Rijksmuseum)

Leonardo da Vinci
Cats, lions, and a dragon c.1517-18

(Royal Collection Trust, HM EII)

21 Mar 1649: Isaac Vossius meets Queen Kristina in #Stockholm #otd He speaks #Latin, she replies in #Dutch, she then hires him as her #Greek tutor....

#Language

Adam Elsheimer,
Witch Riding Backwards on a Goat c.1596-1598.

This small copper belonged to Charles I and was kept in his ‘cabbonett’. It’s a faithful painted copy of Dürer’s engraving of c. 1500.

(Royal Collection Trust, HM EII)

18 Mar 1554: The date on which Thomas Wyatt and his well-heeled co-conspirators originally planned to rise - it was Palm Sunday that year. (NPG)