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15 Aug 1660: Charles II's visitors to #Oxford order removal of 'intruded' fellows & restoration of 'lawful & undoubted' fellows #otd

Figure of Charles I wandering in the wilderness of Doubt with dragon, leopard, lamb, hind and weapons of war around him; plate altered from one of Hollar's series of 'Emblemata Nova'. c. 1641-1650

(British Museum)

12 Aug 1642: Jerome Weston, 2nd Earl of Portland, sent to the Tower #otd by the House of Lords on suspicion of complicity in a plot to deliver Portsmouth into the King's hands (British Museum)

On her feast day #otd 11 Aug St Francis clothing St Clare with the habit, attributed to Domenico Morone, Verona, early 16th century.

(V&A Museum, London)

David Vinckboons,
Some al fresco drinking here, but not much in the way of social distancing
Made c. 1593-1629
(British Museum)

Democritus (the laughing philosopher) and Heraclitus (the weeping philosopher)
c. 1650–60
Wenceslaus Hollar

You may buy your emo philosopher poster at the White Horse near the Fountain Tavern without Newgate #London

(Met Museum)

Gloomy day (early spring)
By Pieter Bruegel the Elder, 1565

Season apart, it sums the kind of day it is here in #Dublin today.

Mouse and Rat, unknown artist, c. 1560

(Rijksmuseum)

3 Aug 1579: William Allen, future cardinal, sends 21 priests off on the mission to England #otd One of these, St Alexander Briant SJ, was martyred alongside St Edmund Campion SJ in 1581.

(BM)

A performing goat with spectators

A single-page painting on an album folio, Janí son of Bahram, or 'Farangi Saz' [that is a painter in the European style], Isfahan, 1684-85. (British Museum)