jdmccafferty

jdmccafferty, 2 hours ago to random

Silver penny.

Roberd, moneyer of King John at Dublin
For John, Lord of Ireland
Production date 1207-1211

(British Museum)

jdmccafferty, 3 hours ago to random

Double portrait of John Fisher and Thomas More

Both portraits loosely based on painted portraits by Holbein

Dutch, 16thC

(British Museum)

jdmccafferty, 3 hours ago to random

Elizabeth I, 1597
Unknown artist

Trinity College, University of Cambridge

jdmccafferty, 3 hours ago to random

Van Dyck's sketch of Titian's St Bernardino of Siena from the former's Italian notebook, now in the British Museum. The artist arrived at Genoa on 20 Nov 1621 and returned to Antwerp in 1627.

Today, 20 May, is Bernardino's feast day.

jdmccafferty, 3 hours ago to cork

A saint for #WorldBeeDay

St Gobnait of Baile Bhuirne #Cork 6th century #abbess associated with bees, who obeyed her. The plinth of her modern statue is a busy hive

(John Saaats)

jdmccafferty, 3 hours ago to random

Saints of 19, 20 May

(French calendar, 17thC, British Museum)

St Pudentiana
St Dunstan
St Ivo of Kermartin
St Bernardino of Siena

jdmccafferty, 3 hours ago to random

20 May 1501: d. Bl. Columba of Rieti, Third Order of St. Dominic & mystic. Renowned for her spiritual counsel, devotion to the Blessed Sacrament, beatified 1625.

jdmccafferty, 3 hours ago to random

20 May 1608: Crown forces recapture #Derry from Cahir O'Doherty just over one month after he had seized it

jdmccafferty, 3 hours ago to random

20 May 794: d. St King Æthelberht II of East Anglia at Sutton Walls, Herefordshire #otd (PHGCOM from BM) at the instigation of Offa of #Mercia

jdmccafferty, 3 hours ago to random

20 May 1675: Arthur Chichester, 1st Earl of Donegall who d. in #Belfast on 18 March, buried at #Carrickfergus #otd ("ownphoto")

His title lives on in several #Belfast streetnames.

jdmccafferty, 3 hours ago to random

20 May 1191: Pope Celestine III declares #otd it is too early for canonisation of St. Laurence O'Toole, Archbishop of #Dublin. He died 1180 & was eventually canonised in 1225. Here is his heart shrine, stolen in 2012, recovered in 2018. (JDemetrescu)

jdmccafferty, 3 hours ago to random

This happened exactly five years ago. Never found out what it was, but it's a handy little kitchen knife:

I looked up at the skylight in my study which is at the end of the garden just now and saw this... Knife-throwing competition ? Dropped by a magpie? Threat? A sign?

jdmccafferty, 3 hours ago to bible

20 May 1629: William Bedell, future translator of #Bible to #Irish #Gaeilge and Provost of Trinity College #Dublin is appointed Bishop of Kilmore & Ardagh by Letters Patent #otd (eebo)

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jdmccafferty, 4 hours ago to France

20 May 1420: Henry V reaches #Troyes #otd to sign a treaty of marriage & amity with #France. He & Catherine of Valois would solemnise their marriage there on 2 June

jdmccafferty, 5 hours ago to random

The low cloud lifted fast.

Dublin, looking inland from the docks.

jdmccafferty, 7 hours ago to random

Monday 20 May #Dublin

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jdmccafferty, 17 hours ago to random

Oxeye Daisy [Leucanthemum vulgare], Book of Flower Studies
c. 1510–1515
Master of Claude de France (Met Museum)

jdmccafferty, 17 hours ago to random

Young Woman Writing or Drawing, n.d.
Attributed to Elisabetta Sirani, 1638-1665
(Art Institute Chicago)

jdmccafferty, 17 hours ago to random

Small desk with folding top or bureau brisé
c. 1685
Marquetry by Alexandre-Jean Oppenordt (Met Museum)

This desk was supplied in 1685 for use by Louis XIV in his study, or petit cabinet, in the north wing of the château de Versailles.

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jdmccafferty, 17 hours ago to random

Woman with a Harp 1520–25
Sebald Beham
(Met Museum)

jdmccafferty, 17 hours ago to random

19 May 1436: Richard Beauchamp 13th Earl of Warwick resigns his duties as guardian to the 15 year old Henry VI #otd He’d been given the job by Henry V in the latter's will (Robin Stevenson/ NPG)

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jdmccafferty, 17 hours ago to random

"The Francesca" Violin 1694 Antonio Stradivari

(Met Museum)

jdmccafferty, 17 hours ago to random

19 May 1649: d. Susannah Howard [née Rich] Countess of Suffolk #otd (NPG)

jdmccafferty, 17 hours ago to Catroventos

19 May 1499: The proxy wedding of Arthur Tudor, heir to the #English throne & Catherine of Aragon takes place at Arthur's Tickenhill Manor in Bewdley, near Worcester #otd 37 years to the day before Anne Boleyn's execution as it happened

jdmccafferty, 17 hours ago to random

19 May 1635: A French herald formally declares war on Spain at Brussels #otd - capital of the Spanish Netherlands

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