John McCaffertyさんのイラストまとめ

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

27 Dec 1612: Frederick V is betrothed to Princess Elizabeth Stewart at the Banqueting House #Whitehall #otd (BM)

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)

18 Dec 1612: Frederick V betrothed #otd to Princess Elizabeth Stewart at the Banqueting House #Whitehall (BM)

For more on Elizabeth, see @misswalsingham’s exciting new book!

Affordable Elizabeth I: the cheap print copies (BM) were the ordinary person's image of the queen. People probably pasted them up at home.

'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)

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

12 Dec 1653: Barebones Parliament dissolves itself #otd and so paves the way for Oliver Cromwell's non-regal monarchy (BM)