John McCaffertyさんのイラストまとめ

Diane de Poitiers in a chariot drawn by lions, c. 1600
Limoges

She was mistress to Henri II and a strong influence up to his death in 1559

(British Museum)

2 Mar 1643: Prince Maurice, 5th child of Elizabeth of #Bohemia & Frederick V, is made general of horse & foot for #Gloucestershire and South #Wales #otd (BM)

28 Feb 1557: Osip Nepea representative of Tsar Ivan IV parades through the streets of #London with the Lord Mayor & aldermen to lodge in Fenchurch St (BM)

The secret lives of 17th century #owls (BM) Reading by candle light in 1625, and out on a skate date in 1644.

Bathsua [Reginald] Makin, 1600-c. 1675, scholar, linguist & promoter of education for women.

Advocate of the methods of Comenius & correspondent with Anna Maria van Schurman.

"the greatest scholler, I think, of a woman in England" - Simonds D'Ewes, 1622.

(British Museum)

23 Feb 1554: Henry Grey, Duke of Suffolk and father of Lady Jane Grey is executed in the Tower of #London #otd (NPG/BM)

He'd tried, in vain, to escape dressed as a servant.

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)

21 Feb 1554: James Croft, former Lord Deputy of #Ireland committed #otd to Tower of #London for his part in Wyatt's rebellion (NTCroftCastle)

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