jdmccafferty

jdmccafferty, 15 hours ago to random

19 May 1536: Henry VIII's son Henry Fitzroy attends the execution of Anne Boleyn for adultery & incest #otd (NPG)
This was considered a sign of favour. He’d already been treated to viewing the execution of five priests two weeks earlier.

jdmccafferty, 3 days ago to random

Saints of 15, 16, 17, 18 May

(French calendar, 17th century, British Museum)

St Dymphna
St Peregrinus of Auxerre
St Restituta of Carthage
St Dioscorus

jdmccafferty, 3 days ago to random

16 May 1392: d. Alexander Neville, exile Archbishop of #York as a parish priest in Louvain #otd (BM)

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jdmccafferty, 3 days ago to random

16 May 1606: John Bulwer baptised at St Michael, Wood Street, London.

A medical practitioner and writer on deafness and on gesture. He advocated lip reading & special education for deaf people.

(British Museum/ Royal Collection Trust HM CIII)

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jdmccafferty, 10 days ago to random

9 May 1234: Edmund des Roches, Archbishop of #Canterbury threatens to excommunicate Henry III #otd unless he changed his manner of governance (McGlinchey)

jdmccafferty, 12 days ago to random

Blackberry, unripe fruits and flower [Rubus sectio rubus] with a jaybird, Book of Flower Studies c. 1510-15, Master of Claude de France (Met Museum)

jdmccafferty, 14 days ago to random

6 May 1527: Rome is sacked by the troops of Charles V; here Pope Clement is besieged #otd (BM)

jdmccafferty, 15 days ago to random

Church interior with woman & child at the foot of a pulpit
After Hendrik van Streek, 1636

(Musée du Louvre)

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jdmccafferty, 15 days ago to spanish

Pendant with the Christ Child, c. 1650, #Spanish

(Art Institute Chicago)

jdmccafferty, 15 days ago to random

Woman cutting a lemon

Arie de Vos, 1636

(Musée du Louvre)

jdmccafferty, 17 days ago to random

Make your own goddess of summer,

1589

(Musée du Louvre)

jdmccafferty, 17 days ago to random

Make your own peacock,
1589

(Musée du Louvre)

jdmccafferty, 21 days ago to random

Pieter de Laer, 1599-1641,

The Mules at the Door of a Stable

(National Galleries of Scotland)

jdmccafferty, 22 days ago to random

27 Apr 1560: Alexander Gordon Bishop of Galloway subscribes to the contract to defend the liberty of the Gospel #otd
In the 1560 parliament he was one of only 4 bishops to accept the new confession, reject papal jurisdiction & prohibit the Mass (Otter)

jdmccafferty, 24 days ago to random

25 Apr 1557: A great masque of 'Almains (#Germans) pilgrims & #Irishmen' performed for King Philip & Queen Mary #otd at Whitehall

jdmccafferty, 25 days ago to random

24 Apr 1555: George Marsh, #Protestant & clergyman taken outside the walls of #Chester, where he refused to recant & so was burnt #otd

(George Marsh memorial at St. Mary the Virgin's church in Deane, Plucas58)

jdmccafferty, 26 days ago to random

Ambrosius Bosschaert the Elder, Vase of Flowers in a Window, c. 1618

(Mauritshuis, The Hague)

jdmccafferty, 1 month ago to random

Emperor Charles V, in alabaster, with some garnets & traces of paint c. 1530-35

(Kunsthistorisches Museum Wien)

jdmccafferty, 1 month ago to london

Pewter cup with the arms of the City of #London and those of the Pewterers' Company inscribed: 'Though Wine Off Good Too Much Of That Wil Make One Lean Though He Be Fatt' c.1600

(British Museum)

jdmccafferty, 1 month ago to random

Turkey, probably 1670s
By Nicolas Robert, b. #otd 18 Apr 1614, d. 25 Mar 1685.

(British Museum)

jdmccafferty, 1 month ago to random

Whale 16th–17th century, Chumash. California.

(Met Museum)

jdmccafferty, 1 month ago to london

8 Apr 1521: Edward Stafford, 3rd Duke of #Buckingham, summoned to #London #otd. He was executed on 17 May 1521 for having encompassed the King's (Henry VIII's death)

(Magdalene College Cambridge and Trinity College Cambridge - Stafford carrying the Sword of State)

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jdmccafferty, 1 month ago to random

8 Apr 1586: John Venn future regicide is baptised #otd at Lydiard St Laurence #Somerset (Houghton Library)

jdmccafferty, 1 month ago to lancashire

8 Apr 1579: Thomas Cottam of #Lancashire enters the #Jesuit novitiate at Sant' Andrea #Rome #otd
Arrested on landing at #Dover June 1580, tortured in Marshalsea & Tower of #London, executed 30 May 1582 having refused last-minute pardon if accepted Supremacy of Elizabeth I (NPG)

jdmccafferty, 1 month ago to london

8 Apr 1551: Gyles Godet, #Paris-trained printmaker is granted letters of denization #otd He'd come to #London in 1547 - and here is some of his output, including his illustration of April and a picture of one pretty famous person who died the year he arrived in #England (BM)

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