John McCaffertyさんのイラストまとめ

Gerrit and Cornelis Schellinger as children c. 1675-85 by the exquisitely talented Gesina Ter Borch (Rijksmuseum)

She is one of my favourite artists of the 17thC - transports you right there.

Pack of 52 playing-cards, each with several lines of Latin text.

The suits are millstones, harps, goats and cupids,
Paris, 1544

Hand-coloured woodcut

(British Museum)

30 Dec 1654: Augustine Garland and Sir Anthony Ashley Cooper move #otd that Lord Protector Oliver Cromwell be crowned

(British Museum)

A woman in a courtyard cleaning fish, Hendrik Potuyl, made 1639 - 1649.

A 17th century #cat takes advantage of the situation. Vegetables are clearly on the menu too. (Rijksmuseum)

A Woman Holding a Lily-of-the-Valley and a Pansy
attributed to Marx Reichlich, 1464–1538. (The Samuel Courtauld Trust, The Courtauld Gallery, London)

You can never go wrong with lilies.

28 Dec 1636: Wenceslaus Hollar arrives in #London #otd beginning a long & flourishing career which has determined quite a bit of our visual vocabulary of 17thC #Britain and #Ireland

(BM/Folger)

Some of his female figures here, along with a depiction of him

22 Dec: feast of Anastasia of Sirmium #otd according to the Byzantine calendar. She died in 304.

I am tweeting her for her namesake who is
@rhetorician’s daughter. Martyr & healer, she is one of the women of the Roman canon.

Saint Jerome as Scholar
c. 1610
El Greco (Domenikos Theotokopoulos)

(Met Museum)

From the Album of Tournaments and Parades in Nuremberg
late 16th–mid-17th century

(Met Museum)

't Moordadigh Trevrtoneel /The murderous tragedy, 1649.

Dutch broadside on the beheading of Charles I satirizing Cromwell as preacher and Fairfax as executioner.

In fairness, Fairfax absented himself from the court after the preliminary meeting.

(British Museum)