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Attributed to Abraham van Dyck
1635 or 1636-1672
Woman Seated, Holding a Book
(The Morgan)
27 Sept 1581: in the Tower of #London #otd - the last of 4 disputes between St Edmund Campion & #Protestant divines. A planned 5th was cancelled due to adverse publicity (BM)
Despite being forbidden books or notes, the word went about that Campion was more than holding his own.
27 Sept 1970: Paul VI declares St Teresa of Avila a Doctor of the Church #otd
The first woman to be so designated.
‘The Portraiture of Mrs. Martha Hatfield’
Portrait of Martha Hatfield b. #otd 27 Sept 1640, lying in bed in a trance lasting from 19 May to 21 June 1652 during which she prophesied.
Frontispiece to James Fisher, 'The wise virgin' (1664).
British Museum.
Baptism of a prince of Spain
Jacques Callot, 1612
(National Gallery of Art, Washington)
25 Sept 1534: d. Pope Clement VII #otd who did not grant Henry VIII 'his' annulment (GCI)
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)