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Yellow and crimson tulip, blue convolvulus and crimson gladiolus, tied with orange ribbon.
By Alexander Marshall, done between 1639-1682
(British Museum)
Couple attacking each other, Gesina ter Borch, c. 1652
(Rijksmuseum)
Reading the News at the Weavers' Cottage
Adriaen van Ostade, 1673.
(Met Museum)
These depictions of reading as a communal exercise are so useful for thinking with.
Wenceslaus Hollar
Autumn
1641
(National Gallery of Art, Washington)
16 Oct 1660: John Cook(e) first Solicitor General of the English Commonwealth and regicide is executed #otd (NPG), his friend Hugh Peter, preacher & regicide is made watch before his own demise (NPG)
16 Oct 1612: Frederick V arrives in England #otd to marry Princess Elizabeth Stewart - the ceremony was on 14 Feb 1613 (BM/Rijksmuseum)
16 Oct 1660: Hugh Peter, Independent leader & preacher during the Commonwealth, proponent of the execution of Charles I & former minister of Salem Massachusetts executed as a regicide #otd
Hans Sachs, poet, 1494-1576
From Nuremberg, he was a prolific writer of 'Meisterlieder' and of plays, humorous fables, anecdotes and tales in verse. Plus he has a wonderful expression here.
(British Museum)