jdmccafferty

jdmccafferty, 9 months ago to random

Squirrel on Bamboo

Kano Tan'yū
Japanese
c. 1650

(Met Museum)

jdmccafferty, 3 months ago to random

Self-portrait, Rembrandt van Rijn, c. 1628 (Rijksmuseum)

#Mood

jdmccafferty, 6 months ago to random

Calendar watch,
Made by John Smeaton in #York, c. 1655-1675

(British Museum)

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jdmccafferty, 9 months ago to random

24 Aug 1556: b. Sophia Brahe, astronomer, genealogist, scholar in several disciplines. Sister of Tycho, she worked closely with him in his observatory of Uranienborg.

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jdmccafferty, 9 months ago to random

Clock in the shape of an elephant, made by Tobias Jramer, Augsburg 1614-1616

(Kunsthistorisches Museum Wien, Kunstkammer)

jdmccafferty, 6 months ago to random

The sun, the moon and a basilisk, Albrecht Dürer, c. 1507-19

(British Museum)

jdmccafferty, 10 months ago to random

Scarlet Ibis with an Egg,
Dorothea Maria Gsell (attributed to), 1699 - 1701

Rijksmuseum

jdmccafferty, 1 month ago to random

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

(Met Museum)

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, 5 months ago to random

1521, Albrecht Dürer draws a walrus

(British Museum)

jdmccafferty, 5 months ago to random

A watch for wearing on a chain around the neck with hour, day, month and tide indications, Jan Janse Bockels, c. 1625 - c. 1650 (Rijksmuseum)

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jdmccafferty, 10 months ago to random

An iguana c. 1585-93 by John White from the British Museum collection.

jdmccafferty, 4 months ago to random

9 Feb: feast #otd of St Apollonia who was tortured in the 3th century by having her teeth removed. The patron of dentistry, she aids the abcessed.

jdmccafferty, 3 months ago to random

The “willing” Hans Schott slides down the bannisters in the month of August 1633.
Valentin Wagner. (Albertina, Vienna)

A 17th century drawing of a named adult sliding down a set of bannisters. This makes me very happy.

jdmccafferty, 3 months ago to random

Hans Hoffmann,
A Hare in the Forest, about 1585.

(The J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles)

jdmccafferty, 5 months ago to random

Bottle in the form of a shoe, c. 1675 - c. 1700

This item is a cross between a whale and a shoe with a high heel. It is actually a bottle made of leather: the tail is the stopper - so it may have been a showpiece or masterpiece for a cobblers’ guild.

(Rijksmuseum)

jdmccafferty, 2 months ago to random

How to hold the pen correctly so as to write well

Antonius Smyters, after c. 1561 - before 1625

(Rijksmuseum)

jdmccafferty, 5 months ago to random

Saint Etienne
Date de création/fabrication : 1400 - 1450
France Bourgogne

(Musée du Louvre)

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jdmccafferty, 6 months ago to random

Dublin Saturday 2 Dec

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jdmccafferty, 9 months ago to random

Elephant with salt.

The elephant is late 15thC Deccan, and the mounting was done in Lisbon about 1550.

(Kunsthistorisches Museum Wien, Kunstkammer)

jdmccafferty, 17 days ago to random

Fox (Vulpes vulpes),
Anselmus Boëtius de Boodt, 1596 - 1610

(Rijksmuseum)

jdmccafferty, 17 days ago to random

Habited fox (perhaps a Capuchin?) from the Tale of Reynard the Fox,
Allaert van Everdingen, c.1636-1675

jdmccafferty, 17 days ago to random

On Trinity Sunday:

Lieven van Lathem The Holy Trinity, 1469

(J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles, Ms. 37, fol. 14)

jdmccafferty, 17 days ago to london

26 May 1703: d. Samuel Pepys diarist & civil servant at Clapham #London #otd (NPG)

jdmccafferty, 16 days ago to random

Two armadillos, c. 1550 - c. 1570.

The unknown artist drew a nine-band & a three-band armadillo here.

Armadillos became a symbol of America in the 16th century, often depicted on paper, while dried specimens were collected in cabinets of curiosities.

(Rijksmuseum)