separated for eternity: four pieces of painting ensemble for house in by Ferdinand Bol c.1657 hanging on eternal loan in since beginning of 20c., one piece remained in https://t.co/jOSBtvxhqI

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No need for parasol anymore this year: French umbrella for protection from the sun, c.1690-1710, coll.

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Search for not over: still some van Rhijn waiting to be found....
https://t.co/dLq8kaU84V

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of the gilded goblet presented to the city of as token of gratitude for the of her children c.1641, coll. for

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Katie M Reinhart and Katy Barrett are our final speakers at 'The Visual Worlds of the Royal Society' workshop on 16 & 17 July.
Register at https://t.co/GHzqU0vyX1

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The first two speakers and the images they will discuss at our conference 'The Visual Worlds of the Royal Society on 16 & 17 July: Alexander Marr & Matthew Walker
Register at https://t.co/8F7X5m2fjB

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Let's provocate a little: most beautiful manuscripts are and were made after the invention of the printing press. Mira calligraphiae monumenta by Flemish Joris Hoefnagel and György Bocskay, coll. c.1561-91.

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Man of many gable statues for house in c.1712 and ceiling c.1692 by Adriaen van der Werff, ca. 1700, coll.

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Cartographer, and Wolfgang Lazius made a small mistake in depicting the crest of on his great in 1552...

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English pill tiles: objects used to make pills and mix ointments, coll. https://t.co/dHrqD76PMF

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Early arrival: broadsheet on the visit of an to w. Dutch description of this animal, c.1563, coll.

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Stunning stained glass: beautiful glasswork found in cesspit, perhaps thrown away after conversion of rich Catholic family to Protestantism. https://t.co/IWT4vceAau

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perpetuum mobile made by Cornelis Drebbel. Heinrich Hiesserle von Chodaw: Reiss-Buch und Leben, Knihovna Národního muzea v Praze; Prague. c.1589-1612, description here: https://t.co/m6Yw3tQ1Jp

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European or made in by Anselmus Boëtius de Boodt, 1596 - 1610, and one by Albrecht Dürer (of descent), c. 1550 - c. 1570, coll.

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RT CfP reminder to all historians - ‘On Belonging: English Conceptions of Migration and Transculturality, 1550 – 1700’, 26 - 28 July 2018 . Send abstracts & bios to tide.ac.uk by 15 Feb 2018

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unhappy in the Augsburg Wunderzeichenbuch or of c.1543.

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The has to go into his by Johannes Wierix, after Pieter Brueghel (I), 1601-52, for

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