John McCaffertyさんのイラストまとめ

From the series Vermis Sericus, engraved by Karel van Mallery, published by Philips Galle around 1595.

Incubation of the eggs, laying of them on hatching shelves, feeding the worms with mulberry leaves & reeling the silk.

Silk manufacture as a female labour.

(Met Museum)

A kitchen, Hendricks Sorgh, c. 1643

(Met Museum)

6 Feb 1514: in the ascendant, Thomas Wolsey is nominated Bishop of #Lincoln #otd By August he was Archbishop of #York & became a cardinal in Sept 1514 #Fasttrackcareer

6 Feb: feast #otd of St. Dorothy d. c. 313, martyr of Caesarea (BM) her emblem is a basket of fruit & flowers

College of Animals, Cornelius Saftleven, 1655

A satire on contemporary academic life.

Among other things, Amadis of Gaul appears to be on the reading list.

(Dallas Museum of Art)

Men loading bales onto a camel, Isfahan, Persia, c. 1610

(British Museum)

So this is a mid-16th century design for a #snail-shaped pitcher by Virgil Solis (BM) The question is, would you drink or otherwise use water poured from it?

Susannah and the Elders, embroidered c. 1660 in England.

A small menagerie of animals here, including a turkey

(Victoria & Albert Museum)

Visio Catoptri Microcosmici Prima
[First Vision from Mirrors of the Microcosm]

Anatomical flap prints, Lucas Kilian, c. 1660

(British Museum)

"Myley Arsheid Zeriff, Prince of Taffeleta Emperour of Morocco and Fezz"
By Wenceslaus Hollar, 1670

That is, Al-Rashid Ben Ali Al-Charif, Sultan of Morocco, 1666 to 1672.

(Met Museum)