John McCaffertyさんのイラストまとめ

Brazilian Landscape
1650, Frans Post (Rijksmuseum)
From 1630 to 1654, there was a Dutch colony in north of Brazil. Post filled sketchbooks with images of local flora and fauna. His retrospective paintings, a mixture of fantasy and observation, found a large clientele .

Coloured plate in Thomas Milles's Nobilitas Politica vel Civilis (1608) of Elizabeth I seated in #parliament.

(Royal Collection Trust, HM EII)

'The Honourable entertainment given to the Queenes Majestie in progresse at Eluetham in Hampshire'. London, 1591

(Royal Collection Trust, HM EII)

7 June, feast of St Willibald of #Wessex who died c.787 as bishop of Eichstätt in Bavaria after many travels (Rensi/BM)

Man in a Tall Hat,
Philippe de Champaigne, 1602-1674

(Musée du Louvre)

Dandelion [Taraxacum officinale] with a caterpillar, Book of Flower Studies
c. 1510–1515
Master of Claude de France
(Met Museum)

María Teresa, 1638–1683, Infanta of Spain
c. 1645, so aged about seven years
by Juan Bautista Martínez del Mazo, son-in-law & successor as court painter to Velazquez who was born #otd 6 June 1599

(Met Museum)

6 June 1397: d. Adam Baume Mayor of #London #otd Two days later Richard II appointed Richard [Dick] Whittington mayor.
Shortly afterwards Whittington arranged for the city to purcase its full liberties from the king for £10,000 (BM)

6 June 1134: d. St Norbert, founder of the Premonstratensians & an advocate of clerical celibacy #otd (BM)

Woman Playing the Flute, French, 16th century (Met Museum)