John McCaffertyさんのイラストまとめ

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

An #elephant exhibited in Antwerp in 1563 - in glorious colour, with much spectator interaction. (BM)

15 Mar 44 BC: killing of Julius #Caesar #otd #Rome

#Shakespeare’s version - which so makes up our default view of this event - was first performed in 1599

(1689 image from the BM and bust, c. 1512-15, Andrea di Pietro di Marco Ferrucci, Met Museum)

Schoolroom.

Girls to the left, with their schoolmistress.
Boys to the right, with their schoolmaster.

Jan Martsen, 1624-1638

(British Museum)

Portrait of Henrietta Maria in mourning.
c. 1649-1660

(British Museum)

Christ Taking Leave of his Mother, Cornelis Engebrechtsz, c. 1515 - c. 1520

(Rijksmuseum)

Two female barbers, one shaving a man seated in a chair, the other combing his wig

Cornelis Danckerts II, c. 1680-1717

(British Museum)

Two men and a woman,
Gesina ter Borch, ca. 1654

(Rijksmuseum)

Interior of a barber's shop,
Isaak Jansz van Ostade, 1636-1649

(British Museum)

Old woman shaving a man,
Paul van Somer II, published in London, 1694

(British Museum)