John McCaffertyさんのイラストまとめ

22 June 1664: d. Katharine Philips, writer, translator, known as the 'matchless Orinda' #otd (BM/Folgers)

22 June 1641: Kenelm Digby having made a moving speech on his loyalty to Crown & CofE in the Commons then decamps to #France #otd (BM) That loyalty to the Established Church came & went.

22 June 1604: Duke Ulric of Holstein begins a visit to his sister Anne of #Denmark in #England. He stays till June 1605. (NMM)

15 June 1623: b. Cornelis de Witt who was second to Lieutenant-Admiral Michiel de Ruyter in the raid on the Medway in 1667. Cornelis was killed on the same day as his brother Johan 20 Aug 1672 (The 2nd image is of their lynched bodies, Rijksmuseum)

11 June 1588: Possible birthdate #otd of the poet George Wither who very definitely was supported by Oliver Cromwell, for whom Wither wrote panegyrics (BM)

10 June 1658: Jeremy Taylor devotional #writer & future Bishop of Down & Connor refused a pass by the Council of State to travel to #Ireland #otd (BM)
He got it in the end, though.

9 June 1449: Mary of Guelders leaves Sluys #otd in a fleet of 14 ships. She & James II of #Scots were married on 3 July at Holyrood. The engraving below is of a tableau vivant depicting their marriage mounted in 1642 at Queen Henrietta Maria’s entry to #Amsterdam (BM)

Two 17th century visual reworkings of St. Colmcille or Columba of Iona whose feast it is #otd on 9 June, d. 597. Both turn him into a #Benedictine. (JMcC/BM)

A musician and his daughter
1629 by Thomas de Keyser (Met Museum)

This displays the wealth and confidence of the patrician class of 17thC Amsterdam. They are in luxurious black clothing. The father’s lute is both a costly foreign import and a mark of refinement.
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Autumn Buttercup [Ranunculus bullatus] with a holly blue butterfly, Book of Flower Studies
c. 1510–1515
Master of Claude de France (Met Museum)