John McCaffertyさんのイラストまとめ

Bathsua [Reginald] Makin, 1600-c. 1675, scholar, linguist & promoter of education for women.

Advocate of the methods of Comenius & correspondent with Anna Maria van Schurman.

"the greatest scholler, I think, of a woman in England" - Simonds D'Ewes, 1622.

(British Museum)

24 Feb 1668: Samuel Pepys sees Thomas Kyd's the Spanish Tragedy at the Nursery Theatre #otd (BM)

18 Feb 1455: d. Bl. Fra Angelico #Dominican #painter #otd - who was declared patron of Catholic artists in 1984.

Mother and child at a toy stall.

A scene familiar to pretty much everybody.

(From Jacob Cats' "Spiegel vanden Ouden ende Nieuwe Tijd", first edition published in The Hague: 1632. British Museum)

The young drinker, Hendrick Goltzius, c. 1590 - 1610 (Rijksmuseum) He's trying to get two drinks down his neck at once.

This is not an unknown desire.

15 Feb 1628: After a clash with #Spanish vessels Kenelm Digby lands at #Algiers #otd There he buys the freedom of 40-50 #English men in order to recrew his ships (NPG/British Museum)

Lily, c. 1475

Attributed to Andrea del Verrochio

(Royal Collection Trust, HM EII)

13 Feb 1574: under pressure from the Master, Adam Squire, Robert Persons future #Jesuit & #English exile leader resigns his fellowship at Balliol #Oxford #otd (BM)

Looking back just over a century later on Jane Grey's execution #otd 12 Feb 1554, here's Jan Lukyn c. 1664-1714 as part of a series on the executions of noble historical figures.

(British Museum)

12 Feb 1424: Joan Beaufort m. James I King of #Scots #otd at St Mary Overie Church in #Southwark.

She was regent of Scotland 1437-39.