John McCaffertyさんのイラストまとめ

13 Dec 1627: Kenelm Digby receives letters of marque as a privateer #otd He has big plans (NPG)

@17thCenturyLady @stuartparties @RoyalStuartSoc @cheapsellotape @LiamPeterTemple @ElizStJohn @SueCooperBridge @MuseumCromwell @EARLYMUSICPARTY These lads.

Smoker in bed, with companions, Gesina ter Borch, 1653

(Rijksmuseum)

8 Dec 1626: b. Queen Christina of #Sweden brilliant polymath, later convert to #Rome, her own woman, 'the Minerva of the North' #otd

Beaker
mid-16th century
German

This tall glass, sometimes called a Stangenglas [pole glass] is as richly ornamented on the inside as on the outside. A rare example of a glass featuring sharp-pointed spikes that project into the vessel.

(Met Museum)

3 Dec 1549: Reginald Pole leads the field in the first ballot of the papal conclave #otd The bankers rate him as 95% likely to succeed, he may have written an acceptance speech. But, in the end, Julius III was the victor. (NPG) Had he won, he would have been 2nd English Pope

Sitting Pregnant Dog,
Jacob Jordaens (I), 1638

(Rijksmuseum)

24 Nov 1554: Papal legate Reginald Pole arrives #Westminster #otd

He absolved #England from schism on the 30th

(Lambeth Palace)

24 Nov 1633: the Baptism of James (II & VII) takes place #otd at St. James' Palace #London (BM/NPG)

The Artist in His Studio

Ruprecht Bartz , 1636

(Met Museum)

Young Girl Sleeping, between 1655 and 1660,
Eberhart Keilhau

(Detroit Institute of Arts)