John McCaffertyさんのイラストまとめ

School room, Jan Martsen, 1624-1638

(British Museum, 1895,0915.1206)

Interesting to see both boys and girls in one room, with master and mistress in their respective high desks.

Portrait of Princess Anne Stuart, 1637-40, as a baby seated on a cushion; above, two cherubs hold aloft a sheet within which is the dead infant Charles, Duke of Cornwall 'born, baptised & buried 13 May 1629'

(British Museum)

18 Feb 999: d. Pope Gregory V, born Bruno of Carinthia #otd

Trade card of John Saywell, bookseller at the sign of the Greyhound in Little Britain, London, 1650s

15 Feb 1628: After a clash with #Spanish vessels Kenelm Digby lands at #Algiers #otd There he buys the freedom of 40-50 #English men in order to recrew his ships (NPG/British Museum)

Virgin and Child
1670s
Bartolomé Estebán Murillo

(Met Museum)

Looking back just over a century later on Jane Grey's execution #otd 12 Feb 1554, here's Jan Lukyn c. 1664-1714 as part of a series on the executions of noble historical figures.

(British Museum)

Iris, c. 1575
Jacques Le Moyne de Morgues, 1538-1588

(Victoria & Albert Museum, London)

8 Feb 1555: Laurence Sanders #Protestant having been arraigned by Bishop Stephen Gardiner at Southwark cathedral a week earlier, and convicted of heresy is burnt at #Coventry #otd (BM) @DrStevenMFoster

This title just cried out to be tweeted:

‘Hurdy-gurdy player attacking a pilgrim’
Jacques Bellange, c. 1614

(Los Angeles County Museum of Art)