John McCaffertyさんのイラストまとめ

Two mice, Joris Hoefnagel, 1594

Hoefnagel made this drawing especially for his friend Johannes Muisenhol from Frankfurt. The image refers to his surname. The extinguished candle & eaten walnut represent the transience of life.

Visit at the Leasehold Farm, c. 1597
Jan Brueghel the Elder

On right the landlord and his wife dressed in the style favoured by Antwerp’s patricians. Their gift is a sugar loaf, probably to mark the recent birth of a child.

(Kunsthistorisches Museum Wien)

Cornelis de Vos
Portrait of a Young Girl, ca. 1633-1635

(RISD Museum)

12 Oct 1586: Richard Fletcher Dean of #Peterborough [later the bishop of #London] preaches to the commissioners charged with the trial of Mary Queen #Scots #otd (BM)

11 Oct 1649: #Wexford town sacked by Oliver Cromwell #otd c.2000 people are killed

Destruction of the temple in Jerusalem by Titus,
by Nicolas Poussin, 1635.

(Kunsthistorisches Museum Wien)

Originally painted for Cardinal Francesco Barberini.

6 Oct 1625: Venetia Stanley gives b. to Kenelm Digby jnr while Kenelm Digby snr is voyaging #otd (BM/NPG)

4 Oct 1582: d. St. Teresa of Avila #Carmelite mystic & reformer at #Salamanca #otd on the night #Spain moved from 4 Oct to 15 Oct - her feast set by the change to the new Gregorian calendar. At the time some regarded it as a #nuntastic extra miracle to avoid a clash with Francis.

1 Oct 1620: b. Nicolaes Pieterszoon Berchem #painter in Haarlem #otd landscapes and allegories were his speciality.

(Dulwich Picture Gallery/ Met Museum/Rijksmuseum)

30 Sept 1680: Henry Fitzroy 1st Duke of Grafton son of Charles II & Barbara Villiers is created a Knight of the Garter #otd (BM)