ENCOUNTERING A QUEEN C17th Poets saw MAB as the Queen of the Fae, particularly of the diminutive fairies of Drayton's Nimphidia, 1627. Queen MAB is usually pictured in white as if dressed for the bridal 🎨Smedberg, from The Seven Wishes, 1907; Maybank, 1906

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WITCH An olde weather beaten crone, her chin & knees meeting for age, walking like a bow, hollow-eyed, untoothed, lips trembling with palsie, mumbling in the streets, and yet hath a shrewd tongue in her head (S. Harsnet, 1603) 🎨an old woman is persecuted, C17th New England

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MERMAID SAINT Lí Ban was caught in the net of Fergus of Miliuc; given the choice to be baptized & go to heaven within the hour, or to wait 300 years on earth, she chose to die & gain a soul. The story, recorded by Irish monks in C17th, may explain images of in churches

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PUSS IN BOOTS Renowned animal trickster; popularised in Perrault in the C17th as Le Chat Botté, in English in Mother Goose, 1780. This con cat shares many of the features of a household fairy including a desire for boots which could represent seven-league boots

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Surprised smokers in C17th Dutch art (via ). 🚬😮

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"The Protofeminist Insects of & - perfect topic for a summer Art Herstory blog post! Read the guest post by Prof Emma Steinkraus () on matriarchal insects in C17th art: https://t.co/mMjgQPzrmV

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Comforted by Angels, C17th, by (#JosefadeAyalaFigueira; Portuguese, ca. 1630–1684), who was born (Jul 22). Held at the ; online source, https://t.co/zg9j6kuxDX

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On International Day of the Midwife here is a handy guide - James Wolveridge's C17th midwifery handbook, written to 'inform midwives in their office'

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Ugh, it's Monday! So here is the beautiful Mary Wither by the remarkable Mary Beale, whose success as a portraitist in C17th England made her the breadwinner of the family.

Her devoted husband kept records of all her work & the praise she received 👩‍🎨💗

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Allegory of Vanity, C17th, by Ginevra Cantofoli (Italian, 1618-72). Private collection?; image source, https://t.co/EUoIU9cVMv

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Yesterday 13 July 1607: Birth of Václav (Wenceslaus) Hollar in Prague. Hollar was an exquisite & prodigious bohemian C17th etcher. His very first commission in England was executed on site at Greenwich & magnificently captured the architectural wind of change… 1/2

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This day 3 July 2007: A C17th painting ‘Sunlight on a Stormy Sea’ by Bonaventura Peeters the Elder was stolen in broad daylight, from the first floor west side of The Queen’s House. The painting was said to be worth £200K.
https://t.co/rFu6kFfKGK

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Aelbert born this day in 1620
A leading landscape painters of the Dutch Golden Age in the C17th

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Nothing to see here. Just a C17th German painting of a woman having a wee while wearing spectacles on her bum.

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Composite South German cap-a-pied field armour, c16th, c17th and later, just sold £10500

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圖左是:倉敷 咲
圖右是:倉敷 橿

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James Wolveridge's C17th practical midwifery handbook, written to 'inform midwives in their office'

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Showing Marguerite de France dressed as Minerva, have you seen this by Jean de Court?

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