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Metamorphosis of a Small Emperor Moth, after 1679.
Attributed to Dorothea Maria Gsell as part of the workshop of her mother, Maria Sibylla Merian.
(Rijksmuseum)
Saints Matthew [feast #otd 21 Sept]
and Francis [feast 4 Oct]
Giovanni di Paolo also known as Giovanni di Paolo di Grazia, c. 1435
(Met Museum)
Joachin Patinir, Charon crossing the Styx,
1520-1524 - a bubbling blend of classical and biblical imagery in one painting
(Museo Nacional del Prado)
That soul is headed in the bad direction...
21 Sept 1640: b. Philippe I, Duc D'Orléans, 'Monsieur', younger brother of Louis XIV
(Musée du Louvre)
Cyclamen (recto) and a common borage (verso), attributed to Jacques Lemoyne de Morgues, c. 1575.
(V&A Museum, London)
16 Sept 1643: King's Lynn surrenders to a parliamentary army under the Earl of #Manchester #otd
A broadside with a rebus, satirising in form of a gypsy's prophecy Frederick V's defeat at the White Mountain & subsequent flight; with an etching showing a gypsy woman reading Frederick's hand, and with engraved title and dialogue text. [1621]
(British Museum)
The Visitation, from The Life of the Virgin.
Albrecht Dürer, c. 1504, published 1511.
(Art Institute Chicago)
3 Sept 1658: 3pm, Whitehall, Oliver Cromwell, Lord Protector of #England,#Scotland & #Ireland dies #otd (BM)