John McCaffertyさんのイラストまとめ

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

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

(Rijksmuseum)

11 Dec 1539: Anne of Cleves reaches Calais #otd, delayed there by bad weather till 27 December. Had left home on 26 Nov. (St. John's Oxford)

Saints of 8-11 December, Jacques Callot, 1632 - 1636

(Rijksmuseum)

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

7 Dec 1612: funeral of Henry Frederick Prince of #Wales (d. 6 Nov) at #Westminster Abbey amid scenes of huge grief.

During the service a naked man ran through the mourners, claiming to be his ghost (CUL/Dulwich PG)

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)

29 Nov 1489: Arthur Tudor invested as Prince of #Wales & Earl of #Chester #otd

What if he had lived longer?

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

He absolved #England from schism on the 30th

(Lambeth Palace)