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One of the first Dutch comics printed in showing a goat as a patient who visits a wolf as a doctor in his surgery, viewing the urine of the patient. Spot the the glasses and the linen bin. ca. 1530-60 and read the funny text. https://t.co/dXm7npeE3r https://t.co/NukThoVJRl

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2022-01-21

Today is the last day to register for online attendance (£5) at the New Insights into 16th & 17th century British Architecture conference! It takes place this Saturday 15th January. Please register by midnight tonight at https://t.co/BDWYh0C0fU

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2022-01-13

Through the autobiography of George King (1787-1857), explores subjects including the impact of foundling labor on the British empire, the mental & physical toll of war, and slavery & race: https://t.co/am8c5miqgz

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2022-01-09

Cold and rainy, but still able to see tropical through your Dutch window in the period... Stained glass windows, 1600-1650, m.

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2022-01-09

earlymodernart:

Antoine Vollon, Mound of Butter, 1875 https://t.co/K08rRz6mkY

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2022-01-08

Great for the end of the year: Tabula Cebetis or 'way of life to by an unknown Dutch artist, 1572, . So many interesting details. Could use a little restoration though... Zoom in here: https://t.co/CAYPFQTQXy

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2021-12-27

dreamy landscape as seen on the background of a depiction of the Calvary, by pseudo Jan Wellens de Cock, c. 1520, . 1/2

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2021-12-23

Really nice database of noble patents issued in or https://t.co/GkDE39DA9t This one, issued in 1608, is my favorite: https://t.co/98nhl7VJxO Check out the binding!

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2021-12-06

How Can I Make This About Me? Owner Jean Lallemant le Jeune as looking at various scenes in his of hours, 1540, https://t.co/vyfPVuJkVN

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2021-12-03

And here is an image of John Dee's crystal, which is now housed . Dee claimed that this crystal was given to him by the angel Uriel in November 1582. He also claimed he used it to see or apparitions

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2021-11-19

From to title page of A. van Leeuwenhoek, Send-brieven (Epistles, to the High-honored Gentlemen of the Royal Society in 1718 turned into a plaque in 1740, coll. . https://t.co/67WsUkuQ3y

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2021-09-20

The least mapped place on earth in the 16th C? Below sea level, of course. Hence the flowering of fantasy, even as the boy in me sometimes wonders. From: Cosmographia (Italian edition), c. 1550.

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2021-09-14

No surveillance camera needed in the period: house sign "the eye of God", ca. 1700-1799, Vienna. https://t.co/3N3wOwrtNn

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2021-08-30

qne their haircut in De chronycke van Hungarien (#Hungary) by Hieronymus Ortelius (1619) an the portrait of Emperor Rudolf II by Aegidius Sadeler, after Hans von Aachen, 1603. https://t.co/3dT0dXVLvI

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2021-08-27

The is my new favourite tamed wild Zebra by Natale Bonifacio, 1591, and by Antonio Tempesta, ca,1650,

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2021-07-21