John McCaffertyさんのイラストまとめ

Two rats, one with a ball, c. 1480 - 1510

(British Museum)

20 Apr 1560: Edmund Bonner deprived bishop of #London placed in the Marshalsea again #otd where he had been banged up a decade previously (TCC/BM) #tudormerrygoround

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Rosary maker, 15thC

(Stadtbibliothek Nürnberg | Germanisches Nationalmuseum)

Giant baler (Melo amphora) shell c.1646
Wenceslaus Hollar.

(British Museum)

8 Apr 1586: John Venn future regicide is baptised #otd at Lydiard St Laurence #Somerset (Houghton Library)

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

One of my all-time favourite images: Cardinal Fernando Niño de Guevara (1541–1609) painted c. 1600
By El Greco [Domenikos Theotokopoulos] who died #otd 7 Apr 1614

(Met Museum)

It’s Passion Sunday or Palm Sunday. Here is a wheeled 15th century Palmesel or ‘palm-donkey’.

(Met Museum)

The Conversion of St. Paul
1509, Lucas van Leyden (Met Museum)
Here, on the road to Damascus, Paul is dazzle-blinded by God, very discreetly tucked into the top-left of the overall image.

23 Mar 1708: James Francis Edward Stuart, James VIII & III, attempts to land at Firth of Forth (NPG) #otd