John McCaffertyさんのイラストまとめ

Ceremonial thrones of Tsar Alexis Mikhailovich (Alexis I). 1659

(British Museum)

17th century moustache grooming.

The barber makes house calls to carry out the curling, while his assistant heats the tongs.

Abraham Bosse, c. 1632-35.

(British Museum)

25 July: Feast of St Christopher #otd a saint created by wordplay (BM)

Owl dressed as a pilgrim with hat and drinking bottle c. 1500-49 (Rijksmuseum)

Otter with a fish in its mouth,
Gerard ter Borch (I), 1612

(Rijksmuseum)

28 June 1650: in the early hours #otd d. John Venn, regicide (Houghton Library/ Medal of Charles I, BM)

Wedding dancers

Heinrich Aldegrever, 1538.

(Musée du Louvre)

25 June 1592: Robert Southwell #Jesuit & poet is arrested #otd at night at Uxenden near Harrow. He was taken first to Richard Topcliffe's house where he was tortured. Executed on 21 Feb 1595.

Today 24 June is the great feast of midsummer, that of the birth of St John the Baptist.

Apologies: but I couldn’t resist.

How it started. How it’s going.

(Rijksmuseum)

22 June 1665: A hero's funeral at #Westminster Abbey #otd for Charles Berkeley Earl of #Falmouth who had been killed at the Battle of Lowestoft