John McCaffertyさんのイラストまとめ

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

22 Mar 1644: Besiegers of Newark surrender to Prince Rupert #otd (BM) He takes 11 brass cannon, 50 barrels of gunpowder & 4,000 muskets

15 Mar 1604: James VI & I first enters #London through seven triumphal arches designed by Stephen Harrison with text by Ben Jonson #otd

9 Mar 1616: Francis Beaumont, playwright, interred in #Westminster Abbey near #Chaucer & #Spenser #otd

White lily (Lilium candidum), Anselmus Boëtius de Boodt, 1596 - 1610

(Rijksmuseum)