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St Peter's Basilica seen from the Doria-Pamphili gardens. 1646, Claud Lorrain (British Museum)
A much more rustic Rome than today's view.
16 Sept 1661: Henry Mordaunt, 2nd Earl of #Peterborough appointed governor of #Tangier #otd (BM)
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16 Sept 1643: King's Lynn surrenders to a parliamentary army under the Earl of #Manchester #otd
16 Sept: feast of St Cyprian (chalice) & Pope St Cornelius (BM) #otd
Two country women walking in a landscape, Gesina ter Borch, 1654
(Rijksmuseum)
A broadside with a rebus, satirising in form of a gypsy's prophecy Frederick V's defeat at the White Mountain & subsequent flight; with an etching showing a gypsy woman reading Frederick's hand, and with engraved title and dialogue text. [1621]
(British Museum)
12 Sept 1605: b. William Dugdale, herald and important antiquary #otd at Shustoke, near Coleshill in Warwickshire
(U Toronto)
Here's a #nuntastic Gilbertine from his very influential Monasticon Anglicanum, 1655–1673 (British Museum)
10 Sept: Feast of St. Aubert of #Avranches who was ordered by Archangel Michael to start the construction of what became Mont Saint-Michel (GuildhallAG)