@jdmccafferty John McCafferty

John McCafferty posts on X about british museum, london, in the, ireland the most. They currently have [------] followers and [---] posts still getting attention that total [-----] engagements in the last [--] hours.

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Social topic influence british museum #49, london #3152, in the 5.26%, ireland #2620, louvre #75, collection 4.39%, dublin #328, hm #1477, vienna #359, sir 2.63%

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Top Social Posts

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"Clear and coloured glass depicting Mary of Burgundy b. [--] Feb [----] d. [--] Mar [----]. From the Chapel of the Holy Blood Bruges. Probably made in Bruges c. [----] (V&A Museum London)"
X Link 2026-02-13T08:19Z 38.4K followers, [---] engagements

"Portrait of Shah Jahan holding an emerald by Muhammad 'Abed opaque watercolour and gold on paper Dated 'saneh ahad' or regnal year one (14 Feb [----] - [--] Jan 1629) V&A London"
X Link 2026-02-14T10:39Z 38.4K followers, [---] engagements

"Saint Vincent Ferrer OP (13501419) Spanish late 17th century Met Museum"
X Link 2026-01-22T21:32Z 38.4K followers, [---] engagements

"23 Jan 1567: d. The Jiajing Emperor the 11th Ming Emperor who lived for decades in isolation away from the Forbidden City #otd"
X Link 2026-01-23T08:20Z 38.4K followers, [---] engagements

"'Blood for Blood or Murther Revenged in [--] Tragicall Historyes some where of haue Bin the product of our times' (1661) An interesting set of "cover" killings here. (British Museum)"
X Link 2026-01-24T21:38Z 38.3K followers, [----] engagements

"A card party Evert Wyntgis c. 1625-32 I am intrigued to see a Greyfriar (Franciscan) playing away here. British Museum"
X Link 2026-01-24T21:41Z 38.3K followers, [---] engagements

"His and Her Spectacles Drawn by Hans Jacob Rotenflan 17thC. Formerly attributed to H Ringli I (British Museum)"
X Link 2026-01-24T21:42Z 38.3K followers, [---] engagements

"Tile Safavid dynasty Persia 17thC (British Museum)"
X Link 2026-01-26T13:15Z 38.3K followers, [---] engagements

"Esaias van de Velde A musical party c. 1602-1630 (British Museum)"
X Link 2026-01-26T21:43Z 38.3K followers, [---] engagements

"St Mary Magdalene Gregor Erhart c. [----] - [----] (Muse du Louvre) Height: 1.77m; Width: 0.44m; Depth: 0.43m Linden wood polychrome"
X Link 2026-01-27T22:00Z 38.3K followers, 144.1K engagements

"The BM catalogue says 'Tortoise and separate view of a walled coastal town in the Veneto' for this by Melchior Lorck mid-16th century. I'm sticking with giant flying tortoise myself"
X Link 2026-01-28T22:29Z 38.3K followers, [---] engagements

"A street fight between the so-called 'Bruttobuono' in support of the Spanish and stone-throwing pro-French men. Francesco Villamena [----]. Fights between supporters of the Spanish and French factions in Rome were endemic at this period. (British Museum)"
X Link 2026-01-28T22:43Z 38.3K followers, [---] engagements

"Interior courtyard c. [----] Melchior Lorck. (British Museum) You still see the same kind of bars over ground floor windows in Rome today and many other cities"
X Link 2026-01-29T21:20Z 38.3K followers, [---] engagements

"Pendant with the Adoration of the Magi perhaps made in Dresden or Munich; late 16th or early 17th century (British Museum)"
X Link 2026-01-29T21:22Z 38.3K followers, [----] engagements

"Temperat Who's but Cittizens and Citty lasses / Not if they drinke much wine and fill their glasses." c. 1642-1649. (British Museum)"
X Link 2026-01-29T21:40Z 38.3K followers, [---] engagements

"Wine party c. 1580-1613 (British Museum) A rare pictorial view of the varieties on offer at the time. And they're having cheese & bread with their tasting. I love it"
X Link 2026-01-29T22:25Z 38.3K followers, [---] engagements

"Henri IV of France signing the ratification of his abjuration of Protestantism before Alessandro de Medici the Popes Legate & future Leo XI. This happened on [--] Aug [----]. The image was made in [----] which was the year Henri was assasinated. #WorthAMass (British Museum)"
X Link 2026-01-30T10:07Z 38.4K followers, [----] engagements

"Shilling of Charles I d. #otd [--] Jan [----] Newark [----] (Yale University)"
X Link 2026-01-30T13:10Z 38.4K followers, [---] engagements

"Penance of Saint Jerome and Saint Francis Receiving the Stigmata (Yale University) Master of the Fiesole Epiphany c. 1485"
X Link 2026-01-30T13:18Z 38.4K followers, [---] engagements

"30 Jan 1647: Hearing that Charles I has surrendered to the #Scots John Maxwell Church of #Ireland Archbishop of #Tuam takes to his bed #otd where he died on [--] Feb (British Museum)"
X Link 2026-01-30T16:52Z 38.3K followers, [---] engagements

"Pendant commemorating the execution of Charles I #otd [--] Jan [----] "Quis temperet a lacrymis January [--] 1648." Who can refrain from tears January [--] [----] [----] (British Museum)"
X Link 2026-01-30T16:56Z 38.3K followers, [---] engagements

"A little commemoration of #otd [--] Jan [----] when Oliver Cromwell's corpse along with that of John Bradshaw & Henry Ireton were suspended from gallows. Their deads too are shown spiked on Westminster Hall 'Rex Independentium' (British Museum)"
X Link 2026-01-30T16:58Z 38.3K followers, [----] engagements

"This drawing is of an infant who died aged only twelve hours on [--] Jan [----] which the artist (perhaps the father) rapidly sketched. (Muse du Louvre)"
X Link 2026-01-31T09:30Z 38.3K followers, [---] engagements

"Wine bowl made from a single piece of rock crystal. Mughal from the reign of Shah Jahan [--] Jan [----] - [--] July [----]. (British Museum)"
X Link 2026-01-31T09:38Z 38.3K followers, [----] engagements

"William III offered to mediate between Sultan Mustafa II and Emperor Leopold I - negotiations were carried on near Carlowitz from [--] Nov [----] - #otd [--] Jan [----] when an armistice for [--] years or as stated on the medal five lustres was concluded. (British Museum)"
X Link 2026-01-31T09:39Z 38.3K followers, [---] engagements

"31 Jan 1663: Samuel Pepys 'home to dinner & then found my plate of the Soverayne . come from Mr Christopher Pett of which I am very glad.' It was this: 'The true portraicture of his Ma. royall ship The Soveraigne of the Seas built in the yeare 1637' (British Museum)"
X Link 2026-01-31T22:28Z 38.3K followers, [---] engagements

"Snowdrop Galanthus Nivalis c. [----]. (British Museum)"
X Link 2026-01-31T22:36Z 38.3K followers, [----] engagements

"You think modern weddings have become too gimmicky too blingy Try these figures of [--] "Argonauts" conveyed on an acquatic peacock along the River Arno for the marriage of Cosimo II de' Medici and Maria Magdalena of Austria [----]. (British Museum)"
X Link 2026-01-31T22:50Z 38.3K followers, [----] engagements

"Bookplate with the coat of arms of Konrad Peutinger [----] "Laws check and govern even destiny itself/ Conrad Peutinger of Augsburg Doctor of both laws". Made by Hans Burgkmair the Elder. (British Museum)"
X Link 2026-01-31T22:51Z 38.3K followers, [---] engagements

"Elizabeth Scarlett of Brill (Bucks) her half-penny [----] (British Museum)"
X Link 2026-01-31T22:56Z 38.3K followers, [---] engagements

"31 Jan: feast of Blessed Ludovica Albertoni d. [----] a member of the 3rd Order of St. Francis & reliever of the Roman Poor Here is Bernini's statue of her in ecstasy in S. Francesco Ripa (foto: H-V-N-V) - way less visited & much more visible than his St.Teresa"
X Link 2026-01-31T23:10Z 38.4K followers, [---] engagements

"New Inventions of Modern Times Nova Reperta The Invention of the Olive Oil Press plate 12" ca. [----] Jan Collaert I (Met Museum)"
X Link 2026-01-31T23:15Z 38.3K followers, [---] engagements

"Table clock made in #Poland c. 1575-85 With automata figures of a man with pack and a milkmaid and cow. The man held a staff and revolved in dial of which staff pointed out the hours. (British Museum)"
X Link 2026-01-31T23:22Z 38.3K followers, [---] engagements

"Camel and driver c. [----] Mughal (British Museum)"
X Link 2026-01-31T23:31Z 38.3K followers, [---] engagements

"Portrait of Caspar von Kckeritz c. [----] - [----] Lucas Cranach the Elder (Muse du Louvre)"
X Link 2026-01-31T23:37Z 38.3K followers, [---] engagements

"31 Jan 1689: Thomas Lamplugh Archbishop of #York votes against the motion #otd declaring William & Mary monarchs. However on [--] Mar he took the oath and assisted in the coronations on [--] April. (York Museums Trust - with his wife Catherine Davenant whose hat is a joy)"
X Link 2026-01-31T23:39Z 38.4K followers, [---] engagements

"Monumental brass showing the Virgin Mary in the Annunciation made in [----]. Found in a cellar in Silver St #Cambridge [----]. (British Museum) And we get to see her book case too"
X Link 2026-02-01T09:46Z 38.3K followers, [---] engagements

""Tesicqueo. A kinde of Snake which the Saluages (being rost or sodden) doe eate. Some an ell long" John White 1585-1593 (British Museum)"
X Link 2026-02-01T09:54Z 38.3K followers, [---] engagements

"February from The XII Mounthes of the Yeare in the Habits of Severall Nations c. 1621/23: The sun now with the fishes doth conspire And faintly yet returns his winter fire Whilst the Islander & Lapland people goe In fox-furr'd coats to quell the native snow (British Museum)"
X Link 2026-02-01T09:56Z 38.3K followers, [---] engagements

"Fragment of a mug or bottle made in #Woolwich c. 1640-1650. Probably accurately depicts the reaction of many locals to the events of that particular decade. (British Museum)"
X Link 2026-02-01T10:00Z 38.3K followers, [---] engagements

"St Brigid Muire na nGael (the Mary of the Gaels) in my parish of St Brigids Blanchardstown earlier this morning. One 17thC liturgy for her feast describes her too as Lilium inter spinas hence the lilies in the arrangement"
X Link 2026-02-01T12:49Z 38.3K followers, [---] engagements

"The Glorious Virgin S. Bridgit Patroness of Ireland 1770/1790 Brigid gets a late 18th century makeover. (British Museum)"
X Link 2026-02-01T16:40Z 38.3K followers, [---] engagements

"1 Feb 1462: b. Johannes Trithemius #Benedictine Abbot & polymath #otd his pupils included #Paracelsus (CSvBibra)"
X Link 2026-02-01T16:43Z 38.3K followers, [---] engagements

"Milkmaid. Adriaen van de Venne c. 1620-1626 (British Museum)"
X Link 2026-02-01T19:54Z 38.3K followers, [---] engagements

"A [----] gold 'Unite' [--] shillings "The Commonwealth of England" with George's Cross "God with us" George's Cross & Irish Harp. (British Museum) Other coin still in circulation with the head of Charles I must have had a little bit of extra resonance that year"
X Link 2026-02-01T19:56Z 38.3K followers, [----] engagements

"#LondonBird's-eye view of the west end of Cheapside branching left into the Shambles (& Paternoster Row with St. Michael's-in-the-Querne dividing them. At the east end of the Church the Little Conduit surrounded by water-jugs. Ralph Treswell [----]. (British Museum)"
X Link 2026-02-01T20:02Z 38.3K followers, [---] engagements

"La Vierge et l'Enfant Jsus avec sainte lisabeth le petit saint Jean Baptiste et saint Michel dit La Vierge aux balances Date de cration/fabrication : vers [----] Matre de la Vierge aux Balances (Muse du Louvre)"
X Link 2026-02-01T20:03Z 38.3K followers, [---] engagements

"View of George Heriot's 'Hospital' #Edinburgh with entrance Illustration to Frederick de Witt's 'Theatrum praecipuarum totius Europae'. c. [----] (British Museum) An Orphanotrophium"
X Link 2026-02-01T20:08Z 38.3K followers, [---] engagements

"Frau Maria Martha Besserin b. #otd [--] Feb [----] d. [--] Oct [----] By Jacob von Sandrart [----]. (British Museum)"
X Link 2026-02-02T13:14Z 38.3K followers, [---] engagements

"An Angel with the Cross Lucas Cranach the Elder (workshop of) Mid-16thC (Museum of Fine Arts Budapest)"
X Link 2026-02-02T13:17Z 38.3K followers, [---] engagements

"Struck to commemorate the peace with Spain which was established in [----]. This is the only medal on which James VI & I is styled King of England and Scotland. "peace plenty and pure religion". (British Museum)"
X Link 2026-02-02T19:25Z 38.3K followers, [---] engagements

"February from The Twelve Months Print made by Elias Holl II Published by Paulus Frst (British Museum)"
X Link 2026-02-02T19:28Z 38.3K followers, [---] engagements

"The song-sheet seller. c. 1632-4 Jan van Vliet (British Museum)"
X Link 2026-02-02T19:42Z 38.3K followers, [---] engagements

"Two boys Cornelis de Vos c. 1600-1651 (British Museum)"
X Link 2026-02-02T19:45Z 38.3K followers, [---] engagements

"Windsor Castle the Quadrangle looking west towards the Keep or Round Tower. Wenceslaus Hollar c. [----] (British Museum)"
X Link 2026-02-02T19:46Z 38.4K followers, [---] engagements

"Woman selling peat. Adriaen van de Venne c. 1620-1626 (British Museum)"
X Link 2026-02-02T19:53Z 38.3K followers, [---] engagements

"Clement VII and the Emperor Charles V Sebastiano del Piombo c. [----] (British Museum)"
X Link 2026-02-02T20:04Z 38.3K followers, [---] engagements

"Henrietta Maria embracing her mother Queen Marie de Medici in the courtyard of St James's Palace: illustration to Jean Puget de la Serre 'Histoire de l'entre de la Reyne Mre dans la Grande Brtaigne' (London George Thomason and Octavian Pullen 1639). (British Museum)"
X Link 2026-02-02T20:11Z 38.4K followers, [---] engagements

"The execution of Sir George Lisle and Sir Charles Lucas: "your Shott your shame. Our fall our fame" Frontispiece to 'The Loyall Sacrifice' (London 1648). (British Museum)"
X Link 2026-02-02T21:05Z 38.4K followers, [----] engagements

"Boats offshore Milazzo Sicily with Mount Etna covered with snow in the background [--] Sept [----] School of Jacques Callot (British Museum)"
X Link 2026-02-02T21:08Z 38.3K followers, [---] engagements

"Table Frontal 17th century Venice (Art Institute Chicago)"
X Link 2026-02-02T21:12Z 38.4K followers, [---] engagements

"Portrait of an old man Pierre Biard the younger 1660-1661 (British Museum) Very striking"
X Link 2026-02-02T21:13Z 38.3K followers, [---] engagements

"St. Blaise c. [----] Bicci di Lorenzo (Italian 13731452) (Indianapolis Museum of Art) Feast: [--] Feb the day on which throats are blessed"
X Link 2026-02-03T12:40Z 38.3K followers, [---] engagements

"Relic 1190-1200 of St. Blaise whose feast it is #otd [--] Feb. This was once part of a portable altar (British Museum)"
X Link 2026-02-03T13:23Z 38.3K followers, [---] engagements

"17th Century recycling at its very best. Title page of Hobbes [----] then re-purposed to be the title page of Blaise Pascal's Provincial Letters also [----]. Two classic works one cover design. It's also Blaise Pascal's name day #otd [--] Feb. (British Museum)"
X Link 2026-02-03T13:29Z 38.4K followers, [---] engagements

"Sofonisba Anguissolas luxe c. [----] Prince Alessando Farnese later Duke of #Parma & #Piacenza painted while she was at court in #Madrid - now in the National Gallery of #Ireland (@NGIreland)"
X Link 2026-02-03T21:56Z 38.4K followers, [---] engagements

"Urs Graf c. 1485-c. [----]. A couple embracing on the shore of a lake c. [----] (Royal Collection Trust HM CIII) That hat looks like it's alive. Would you embrace a man wearing that hat"
X Link 2026-02-03T22:05Z 38.3K followers, [----] engagements

"Madonna and Child Enthroned Carlo Crivelli [----] Met Museum"
X Link 2026-02-03T22:07Z 38.3K followers, [---] engagements

"Gold and enamelled case watch Louis Vautyer 1630-1638 (British Museum)"
X Link 2026-02-03T22:39Z 38.4K followers, [---] engagements

"Portrait of Blaise de Monluc 1502-1577 Marshal of #France. His Commentaires de Messire Blaise de Montluc (Bordeaux 1592) on his life was described by Henri IV as a soldier's 'Bible' (British Museum)"
X Link 2026-02-03T22:50Z 38.4K followers, [---] engagements

"Five studies of women's heads; including two of an old woman (Aeltje) wearing spectacles at the end of her nose. c. [----] Attributed to Nicolaes Maes. (British Museum)"
X Link 2026-02-03T22:55Z 38.3K followers, [---] engagements

"Tholsel Dublin published June [----] by James Malton"
X Link 2026-02-03T23:01Z 38.4K followers, [----] engagements

"3 Feb 1600: Martin Heton consecrated Bishop of #Ely #otd - which had been vacant since d. Richard Cox in [----] (Christies) A very big gap"
X Link 2026-02-03T23:03Z 38.3K followers, [---] engagements

"Study of a West African woman Attributed to Rembrandt van Rijn (Dutch 1606-1669) c. [----] (The Peck Collection)"
X Link 2026-02-04T10:22Z 38.3K followers, [---] engagements

"4 Feb 1593: d. Robert Stewart 1st Earl of #Orkney at the Palace of the Yards #Kirkwall #otd - he was then buried in St. Magnus Cathedral (Stevekeiretsu)"
X Link 2026-02-04T12:34Z 38.3K followers, [---] engagements

"Saints of [--] [--] [--] [--] Feb French calendar 17thC (British Museum) St Agatha St Dorothea St Paul of Verdun St Romuald"
X Link 2026-02-05T10:58Z 38.4K followers, [---] engagements

"Hat brooch made in England about [----] Christ & the Woman of Samaria + OF. A. TREWTHE. * THOW. ART. THE. TREW. MESSIAS. (British Museum)"
X Link 2026-02-05T11:37Z 38.4K followers, [---] engagements

"5 Feb 1532: Patrick Walsh who managed to be both Catholic and Church of Ireland bishop of #Waterford & Lismore receives the BA degree at Brasenose College #Oxford #otd"
X Link 2026-02-05T16:44Z 38.3K followers, [---] engagements

"Stylised representation of the capture of Huy on the River Maas by Maurice of Orange #otd [--] Feb [----] (British Museum)"
X Link 2026-02-05T20:57Z 38.4K followers, [---] engagements

"5 Feb 1578: John Dee #astrologer & polymath marries (2) Jane Fromonds #otd they have eight children together (Ashmolean) but only two Arthur and Katherine survive their father"
X Link 2026-02-05T20:57Z 38.3K followers, [---] engagements

"Fireworks at The Hague in honour of William III on his return from war in Ireland #otd [--] Feb [----] (British Museum)"
X Link 2026-02-05T21:17Z 38.3K followers, [---] engagements

"5 Feb 1661: d. The Shunzi Emperor 3rd of the Qing dynasty at the Hall of Mental Cultivation Forbidden City Beijing #otd Among his top advisors was the #German #Jesuit astronomer Johann Adam Schall von Bell (3rd image)"
X Link 2026-02-05T21:17Z 38.4K followers, [---] engagements

"View of the Golden Bend in the Herengracht #Amsterdam bu Gerrit Adriaensz. Berckheyde 1671-1672 (Rijksmuseum) Or what 17th century buildings looked liked when they were brand new"
X Link 2026-02-05T22:16Z 38.3K followers, [---] engagements

"Jacopo Bassano Portrait of a Cardinal c. [----] Szpmvszeti Mzeum Budapest"
X Link 2026-02-05T22:18Z 38.4K followers, [---] engagements

"Gian Lorenzo Bernini Bust of Monsignor Pedro de Foix Montoya c. [----] Marble life-size (Santa Maria di Monserrato Rome)"
X Link 2026-02-05T22:23Z 38.4K followers, [----] engagements

"Jacopino del Conte Portrait of Paul III with a Councillor c. [----] (Basilica di Santa Francesca Romana Roma)"
X Link 2026-02-05T22:26Z 38.3K followers, [---] engagements

"Self-portrait of Samuel van Hoogstraten with long hair aged [--] [----] (British Museum)"
X Link 2026-02-05T22:29Z 38.4K followers, [---] engagements

"View of the City of Prague [----] Johannes Wechter #Praha (Met Museum)"
X Link 2026-02-06T10:43Z 38.4K followers, [---] engagements

"Perma-rain Dublin"
X Link 2026-02-06T14:56Z 38.3K followers, [---] engagements

"6 Feb 1685: d. Charles II King of #England #Scotland & #Ireland #otd at Whitehall #London (GAC)"
X Link 2026-02-06T16:18Z 38.3K followers, [---] engagements

"7 Feb: feast of the 8th century St Richard 'King' of #England #otd aka Richard the 'pilgrim' Richard 'of Wessex'"
X Link 2026-02-07T09:54Z 38.3K followers, [---] engagements

"7 Feb 1611: Lewis Bayly of #Carmarthern highly successful 17thC devotional writer who later became bishop of #Bangor becomes Treasurer of St Paul's London cathedral #otd (BM)"
X Link 2026-02-07T13:43Z 38.3K followers, [---] engagements

"7 Feb 1585: Richard Howland Master of St. John's College Cambridge consecrated Bishop of #Peterborough #otd at #Lambeth. He retained the Mastership till [----] with his see most unusual. He also presided over the funeral of Mary Queen of #Scots that same year (U Aberdeen 1682)"
X Link 2026-02-07T13:57Z 38.3K followers, [---] engagements

"7 Feb 1562: James Stewart Earl of #Moray is publicly created Earl of Mar #otd; next day he married Annas Keith #Edinburgh in a ceremony conducted by John Knox (NGS)"
X Link 2026-02-07T14:04Z 38.3K followers, [---] engagements

"7 Feb 1668: Thomas Butler Earl of #Ossory appointed Lord deputy of #Ireland for the second time #otd Son of the Duke of Ormond (NPG)"
X Link 2026-02-07T14:08Z 38.3K followers, [---] engagements

"7 Feb 1642: Charles I & Henrietta Maria arrive #Dover with Princess Mary who is en route to join her recent husband William of #Orange #otd (Rijksmuseum) A union with big consequences just over four decades later"
X Link 2026-02-07T14:15Z 38.3K followers, [----] engagements

"Frozen canal Herman Saftleven c. 1624-1685. Tranquil and lively at the same time. And very cold. (British Museum)"
X Link 2026-02-08T09:20Z 38.4K followers, [---] engagements

"Frozen canal Herman Saftleven c. 1624-1685. Tranquil and lively at the same time. And very cold. (British Museum)"
X Link 2026-02-08T09:22Z 38.3K followers, [---] engagements

"8 Feb 1601: Francis Tresham a future named conspirator in the Gunpowder Plot takes part #otd in the #Essex rebellion by guarding Lord Keeper Thomas Egerton in #Essex House (BM)"
X Link 2026-02-08T09:22Z 38.3K followers, [---] engagements

"Monday [--] Feb Dublin"
X Link 2026-02-09T07:50Z 38.3K followers, [---] engagements

"A two-sided belt buckle plate mid-15thC of Italian make Niello on silver. Perhaps the 'couple' side is worn when attached Or the solo side when single/fed up with partner (British Museum)"
X Link 2026-02-09T10:13Z 38.4K followers, [---] engagements

"9 Feb 1599: Thomas Dallam & Randolph Bull leave #London #otd to deliver a mechanical clock and organ to Sultan Mehmet III in #Constantinople (National Trust images)"
X Link 2026-02-09T10:14Z 38.3K followers, [---] engagements

"Pope Gregory XV r. #otd [--] Feb [----] - [--] July [----] By Ottavio Leoni (British Museum)"
X Link 2026-02-09T10:15Z 38.4K followers, [---] engagements

"9 Feb 1274: b. St. Louis of Toulouse #otd A prince who became a #Franciscan who became a bishop & lived in great poverty (Met Museum) d. [----]. He is usually depicted vested as a bishop with the Franciscan habit showing through"
X Link 2026-02-09T10:16Z 38.3K followers, [---] engagements

"9 Feb 1554: Original date set for Lady Jane Grey's execution - but Mary I granted a three day reprieve while John Feckenham the new Dean of St Pauls tried to convert her (BM)"
X Link 2026-02-09T10:51Z 38.3K followers, [---] engagements

"9 Feb 1640: Aged only [--] but yet having ruled for [--] years d. Murad IV Ottoman Sultan #otd"
X Link 2026-02-09T10:51Z 38.4K followers, [---] engagements

"9 Feb 1549: under interrogation Sir Thomas Parry reveals all #otd about Thomas Seymours advances on Princess Elizabeth (The Royal Collection Trust HM CIII)"
X Link 2026-02-09T10:59Z 38.3K followers, [---] engagements

"Saints of [--] [--] [--] Feb French calendar 17th century St Apollonia St Guilhem-le-Desert St Scholastica St Saturninus (British Museum)"
X Link 2026-02-09T12:32Z 38.4K followers, [---] engagements

"9 Feb 1567: Mary Queen of #Scots sees Darnley for the last time #otd. Darnley would be found dead after an explosion during that night that of 9-10 Feb. (A coin of the couple [----] British Museum: "Quos Deus Coiunxit (sic) Homo Non Separet")"
X Link 2026-02-09T12:33Z 38.4K followers, [---] engagements

"9 Feb 1602: At the #Dutch church Austin Friars #London Isaac Oliver #miniature painter to royalty m (2) Sara Gheerarts #otd"
X Link 2026-02-09T12:37Z 38.3K followers, [---] engagements

"Two views of a woman wearing an English hood & holding a rosary in front of her. Hans Holbein the Younger c. 1532-34. (British Museum)"
X Link 2026-02-09T17:15Z 38.4K followers, [----] engagements

"Four studies of mules c. 1630-40 Claude Lorrain (British Museum)"
X Link 2026-02-09T17:20Z 38.4K followers, [---] engagements

"Saint Apollonia whose feast it is #otd by Francisco de Zurbarn c. [----]. Now in the Louvre. It was originally in the church of San Jos Seville"
X Link 2026-02-09T17:25Z 38.3K followers, [----] engagements

"Daniel Mytens Margaret Tudor Queen of Scotland d. [----] Painted c. 1620-38 With marmoset. (Royal Collection Trust HM CIII)"
X Link 2026-02-09T17:49Z 38.3K followers, [----] engagements

"On the execution #otd [--] Feb [----] of Bishop John Hooper here's 'Faiths Victorie in Romes Crueltie' c. 1630' Holy Hooper Christian Cranmer Lovely Latimer Religious Reverend Ridley Saint-like Saunders Faithful Philpott . and so on. Alliterated martyrs (British Museum)"
X Link 2026-02-09T17:54Z 38.4K followers, [---] engagements

"The Abbesse du Maubisson [----] Madeleine II Tiercelin de Brosses was abbess from 1574-1594 of this royal Cistercian foundation [----] begun by Blanche de Castille. Attributed to Franois Quesnel. (British Museum)"
X Link 2026-02-09T18:03Z 38.4K followers, [---] engagements

"A bird-trap net strung across a road between two old trees. St Jacobskerk The Hague in the distance. Adriaen Van de Venne c. [----] - [----] (British Museum)"
X Link 2026-02-09T18:04Z 38.4K followers, [---] engagements

"9 Feb 1261: During his long struggle with the barons a panicked Henry III dashes into the Tower of #London #otd"
X Link 2026-02-09T18:13Z 38.3K followers, [---] engagements

"9 Feb 1274: St. Louis of Toulouse was born #otd The prince who became a Franciscan who became a bishop. Here he is from the 14th century UCD-OFM MsB44 now in @ucdarchives . Framed in the second image by St. Francis and St. Clare"
X Link 2026-02-09T18:14Z 38.3K followers, [---] engagements

"A bleaching field Adriaen van de Venne c. [----] - [----] (British Museum)"
X Link 2026-02-09T20:59Z 38.4K followers, [---] engagements

"Cornflowers c. [----] Jacques Le Moyne de Morgues 1538-1588 (Victoria & Albert Museum London)"
X Link 2026-02-09T21:07Z 38.4K followers, [----] engagements

"Six Franciscan saints standing within a decorative frame. c. [----] Published by Philips Galle. (British Museum)"
X Link 2026-02-09T21:10Z 38.4K followers, [---] engagements

"Studies for a painting featuring figures of St Francis St Dominic St Louis of Toulouse & St Margaret of Cortona who stand or kneel before the Tree of Life in an allegorical representation of the Immaculate Conception Francesco Vanni about [----] or thereafter. (Met Museum)"
X Link 2026-02-09T21:12Z 38.3K followers, [---] engagements

"Anne of Denmark c.1611 Isaac Oliver (Royal Collection Trust HM CIII)"
X Link 2026-02-09T21:13Z 38.3K followers, [---] engagements

"An early 17th century #English Falcon's hood. A luxury display item: leather embellished with gold tooling silk velvet and highly skilled embroidery in silver thread. (Victoria & Albert Museum London)"
X Link 2026-02-09T21:14Z 38.3K followers, [----] engagements

"669 token for Strange's Coffee House St Anne's Lane Aldersgate Street #London (British Museum)"
X Link 2026-02-09T21:19Z 38.4K followers, [---] engagements

"Robert White 1677: 'Hospitium Mente-Captorum Londinense' sounds more oratorical than Bethlem Hospital or as it became better known: 'Bedlam' (British Museum)"
X Link 2026-02-09T21:20Z 38.4K followers, [---] engagements

"9 Feb 1538: Anthony Denny confidant of Thomas Cromwell and of Henry VIII m. Joan Champernonne #otd They had five sons & four daughters. She was also a committed #Protestant (NPG/V&A)"
X Link 2026-02-09T21:22Z 38.3K followers, [---] engagements

"Linen hood made in #England c. 1610-1620 The short gap between the crown of the hood and the top of the insertions suggest that it was worn with a ruff. (Victoria & Albert Museum London)"
X Link 2026-02-09T21:24Z 38.3K followers, [----] engagements

"9 Feb 1559: Nicholas Harpsfield appears before Privy Council #otd to answer questions alleged incitements against Elizabeth I & rumours about weapons stockpiled in #Canterbury cathedral. He was an early biographer of Thomas More & influential #Catholic controversialist (BM)"
X Link 2026-02-09T21:25Z 38.3K followers, [---] engagements

"59th birthday. Cycled the 15.5km (plus diversion) against an east wind & rain in a decent time. Feeling grateful"
X Link 2026-02-10T09:12Z 38.4K followers, [---] engagements

"Wednesday [--] Feb Dublin"
X Link 2026-02-11T09:32Z 38.4K followers, [---] engagements

"An actual tiny swathe of blue sky in Dublin just now"
X Link 2026-02-11T10:02Z 38.4K followers, [---] engagements

"Tobias and Sara on their Wedding Night c. [----] (Victoria & Albert Museum London)"
X Link 2026-02-11T10:58Z 38.4K followers, [----] engagements

"11 Feb 1377: As the barge of the mortally ill Edward III passes the Palace of #Westminster #otd - all of the Lords of the 'Good #Parliament' come out to cheer him as he goes by"
X Link 2026-02-11T13:13Z 38.4K followers, [---] engagements

"11 Feb 1541: Bill of Attainder of Katherine Howard receives King's consent #otd It states that any future Queen who refused to reveal her unchaste past would be guilty of treason. Anyone else who failed to report such would be guilty of misprison of treason"
X Link 2026-02-11T13:14Z 38.4K followers, [---] engagements

"'Perrette la Hazardeuse' and a cat Daniel Rabel [----]. Design for the ballet of the fairies of the forests of Saint-Germain danced #otd [--] Feb [----] in the hall of the Louvre. Perrette la Hazardeuse was fairy of players in this production. (Muse du Louvre)"
X Link 2026-02-11T13:15Z 38.4K followers, [----] engagements

"On the birthday #otd [--] Feb [----] and the death day #otd [--] Feb [----] of Elizabeth of York here's 'The Family of Henry VII with St George and the Dragon' c. 1503-9. Flemish School. (Royal Collection Trust HM CIII)"
X Link 2026-02-11T17:30Z 38.4K followers, [---] engagements

"11 Feb 1628: James Marquis of Hamilton begins a self-imposed exile on his Isle of Arran (CMcLean) #otd"
X Link 2026-02-11T17:50Z 38.4K followers, [---] engagements

"11 Feb 1426: Henry IV's last half-yearly payment to Thomas Hoccleve #poet of his annuity of [--]. Hoccleve probably died in March. (BL)"
X Link 2026-02-11T17:50Z 38.4K followers, [---] engagements

"11 Feb 1526: Robert Barnes English Lutheran required to carry a faggot to Paul's Cross #London #otd there to abjure perceived heresies. Burnt as a heretic on Henry VIII's authority on [--] July [----] - greatly shocking Martin Luther (eebo)"
X Link 2026-02-11T21:08Z 38.4K followers, [---] engagements

""Fishing chair" 2nd half of the 16thC Iron chair with velvet-covered seat. Anyone who sat in it was held in place by a hidden spring mechanism in the seat. Other springs clasped the thighs & arms . You had to pass a drinking test to be released. (Kunsthistorisches Museum Wien)"
X Link 2026-02-11T21:09Z 38.4K followers, [----] engagements

"Madonna reading. Raffaello Santi [----]. (Albertina Vienna) Anyone who has tried to read quietly with a restless or playful child nearby will recognise this pose"
X Link 2026-02-11T21:10Z 38.4K followers, [----] engagements

"Rosarium beati Francisci Nrnberger Meister [----] Nicolaus Glaberger (d. [----] Nrnberg) (Albertina Vienna)"
X Link 2026-02-11T21:13Z 38.4K followers, [---] engagements

"11 Feb 1578: Richard Barnes Bishop of Durham writes to Burghley #otd: 'That Augiae Stabulum . the church of Durham . whose stink is grievous in the nose of God & of men & which to purge passeth Hercules' labours' (JMcC)"
X Link 2026-02-11T21:15Z 38.4K followers, [---] engagements

"Studies for a picture of a dead nun. Cristofano Allori b. [--] Oct [----] d. [--] Apr [----] (Albertina Vienna)"
X Link 2026-02-11T21:21Z 38.4K followers, [---] engagements

"11 Feb 1642: Under pressure from both Houses of #Parliament Charles I agrees to replace Sir John Byron with Sir John Conyers as Lieutenant of the Tower of #London #otd (GAC)"
X Link 2026-02-11T21:22Z 38.4K followers, [---] engagements

"11 Feb 1554: Edward Hastings & Lord William Howard escort Princess Elizabeth from Ashridge to #London #otd for her to be questioned about any role she may have had in the Wyatt rebellion (NPG)"
X Link 2026-02-11T21:24Z 38.4K followers, [---] engagements

"So-called brandy bowls were popular in 17th & 18th C Holland for drinking spirits. This bowl is engraved with figures symbolising the cardinal virtues Faith Hope and Charity & four senses hearing sight taste and smell. Erudite tippling. Made in [----]. (V&A Museum London)"
X Link 2026-02-11T21:25Z 38.4K followers, [---] engagements

"11 Feb 1558: the will of Gerlach Flicke #artist is proved #otd. (National Galleries of Scotland / Royal Armouries at the Tower of London/ NPG) Flicke is now probably best remembered for his Thomas Cranmer portrait"
X Link 2026-02-11T21:33Z 38.4K followers, [---] engagements

"Game board with [--] numbered compartments arranged around a central panel each square containing a forfeit to be enacted by the players comprising gestures grimaces &c. [----]. Hours of fun here. (British Museum)"
X Link 2026-02-11T21:33Z 38.4K followers, [---] engagements

"#Leuven Louvain Lovania Lobhin from Raccolta di le piu illustri et famose Citt di tutto il Mondo Venice [----]. (British Museum)"
X Link 2026-02-11T21:34Z 38.4K followers, [----] engagements

"St Anne between St John the Baptist and St Anthony Abbot (The Ashmolean Museum of Art and Archaeology)"
X Link 2026-02-11T21:49Z 38.4K followers, [---] engagements

"Two watercolour paintings [----] one of the 'N. W. View of Confee Confey near #Leixlip Castle and Church' Co. #Kildare by Thomas Ashworth and one of the 'Church & Tower of Taptoe Taghadoe' Co. Kildare by Pope Stevens Reyly from @UCDDigital"
X Link 2026-02-11T21:49Z 38.4K followers, [---] engagements

"From the collection of Cassiano Dal Pozzo 1588-1657. Common dolphin c. 1630-40. (Royal Collection trust HMCIII)"
X Link 2026-02-11T21:53Z 38.4K followers, [---] engagements

"Lodewijk Toeput Pleasure Garden with a Maze c. 1579-1584 .with distant glimpse of Venice (Royal Collection Trust HM CIII)"
X Link 2026-02-11T21:54Z 38.4K followers, [---] engagements

"Iris c. [----] Jacques Le Moyne de Morgues 1538-1588 (Victoria & Albert Museum London)"
X Link 2026-02-11T21:58Z 38.4K followers, [---] engagements

"Proto-monopoly Game board with the walls and gates with the major buildings of Bologna each marked with a different throw of the dice. [----] (British Museum)"
X Link 2026-02-11T22:05Z 38.4K followers, [---] engagements

"Thursday [--] Feb Dublin"
X Link 2026-02-12T07:37Z 38.4K followers, [---] engagements

"12 Feb 1554: Lady Jane Grey 9-day Queen is beheaded in the Tower of #London #otd (BM: a 17thC popular print view of events)"
X Link 2026-02-12T13:21Z 38.4K followers, [---] engagements

"12 Feb 1647: John Brenan (future archbishop of #Cashel) and St. Oliver Plunkett (future archbishop of #Armagh & martyr) sail out of #Waterford Harbour for #Rome under the tutelage of Pierfrancesco Scarampi papal envoy #otd"
X Link 2026-02-12T17:04Z 38.4K followers, [---] engagements

"12 Feb 1625: John Milton admitted to Christ's College #Cambridge #otd paying [--] shillings. His first tutor William Chappell would go on to be Provost of Trinity College #Dublin and Bishop of #Cork"
X Link 2026-02-12T17:10Z 38.4K followers, [---] engagements

"12 Feb 1562: Richard Pates deprived bishop of #Worcester makes bequest to the cathedral #otd but with condition that #England's schism with #Rome must be ended for it to take effect (Mattana)"
X Link 2026-02-12T17:20Z 38.4K followers, [---] engagements

"This piece of plaster was part of the decorative scheme painted in [----] for William Sparrow d. [----] at Park Farm Hilton Huntingdonshire. This was work done for prosperous yeoman farmers & is a rare survival. (Victoria & Albert Museum London)"
X Link 2026-02-12T17:32Z 38.4K followers, [---] engagements

"Jacques Callot 1622-23 Two poor women the younger one feeding the older with a spoon. A tender 17th century moment caught on the page. (British Museum)"
X Link 2026-02-12T17:43Z 38.4K followers, [---] engagements

"The 12th/13thC church of the 6thC #Welsh St Dubhn at Churchtown Hook Head #Wexford this evening in 2024"
X Link 2026-02-12T22:37Z 38.4K followers, [---] engagements

"Sunday [--] Feb Dublin"
X Link 2026-02-15T08:19Z 38.4K followers, [---] engagements

"2 Feb 1554: less than an hour before her own execution Jane Grey's husband Lord Guildford Dudley is beheaded on Tower Hill #London #otd (BM). She sees it"
X Link 2026-02-12T22:28Z 38.4K followers, [----] engagements

"Portrait of Mattheo Lopes Ambassador of the King of Ardra now southern Benin to Louis XIV made c. 1670-1680 (British Museum)"
X Link 2026-02-09T21:21Z 38.4K followers, [---] engagements

"Young Hare Albrecht Drer [----] (Albertina Vienna)"
X Link 2026-02-11T21:32Z 38.4K followers, 10.7K engagements

"Cairo from 'Raccolta di le piu illustri et famose Citt di tutto il Mondo' Venice [----]. The depiction of the Sphinx sand dunes & pyramids is quite engaging. (British Museum)"
X Link 2026-02-11T21:55Z 38.4K followers, [---] engagements

"Eleonora Gonzaga Duchess of Urbino b. [--] Dec [----] [--] Feb [----] Regent of Urbino in [----]. By Titian (b. Pieve di Cadore 1488/90 d. Venezia 1576) The Uffizi"
X Link 2026-02-13T08:09Z 38.4K followers, [----] engagements

"Jacopo Bassano b. about [----] - d. [--] Feb [----] Portrait of a Bearded Man c. [----] (The J. Paul Getty Museum Los Angeles)"
X Link 2026-02-14T10:41Z 38.4K followers, [---] engagements

"Here's a portrait of Galileo Galilei done by Ottavio Leoni in [----] so here aged about sixty. Galileo was born #otd [--] Feb [----] in Pisa (Muse du Louvre)"
X Link 2026-02-15T08:39Z 38.4K followers, [---] engagements

"Dish Deruta c. [----] - [----] Nothing is gained by sleeping. (British Museum) Begging to differ"
X Link 2026-02-05T22:14Z 38.4K followers, [---] engagements

"Oval lead uniface medal of Edward VI made in [----] so at the very outset of this nine year olds kingship. (British Museum)"
X Link 2026-02-05T22:15Z 38.4K followers, [---] engagements

"Martyrdom of [--] Franciscan friars in Nagasaki #otd [--] February [----] this image probably made for their beatification in [----]. (British Museum)"
X Link 2026-02-05T22:15Z 38.4K followers, [---] engagements

"Francis Drake Plymouth City Council House by an unknown artist - for a slightly different view of him. (Plymouth Museums Galleries Archives)"
X Link 2026-02-05T22:28Z 38.4K followers, [---] engagements

"Having my birthday cake this afternoon as Tuesday is a busy working day. My youngest daughter responded lavishly to my request for something chocolate-coffee-walnut"
X Link 2026-02-08T13:34Z 38.4K followers, [----] engagements

"Study for a painting of the Birth of the Virgin Mary Alessandro Casolani c. [----] (British Museum)"
X Link 2026-02-09T17:47Z 38.4K followers, [---] engagements

"A Mechanical Galleon 1580x1590 from Augsburg (British Museum) An amazing automaton it even played music"
X Link 2026-02-09T20:57Z 38.4K followers, [----] engagements

"La Naissance de la Vierge Date de cration/fabrication : [----] - [----] Anonyme Limoges (Muse du Louvre)"
X Link 2026-02-09T21:01Z 38.4K followers, [---] engagements

"Portrait of Claude de Clermont Baronne de Thoury 1540-65. Franois Clouet born c. [----] d. [--] Dec [----] (British Museum)"
X Link 2026-02-09T21:17Z 38.4K followers, [---] engagements

"Gold ryal of Mary Queen of #Scots [----] (British Museum)"
X Link 2026-02-09T21:26Z 38.4K followers, [---] engagements

"An angel holding a candlestick and wearing a red robe. Florence c. [----] (British Museum)"
X Link 2026-02-11T11:40Z 38.4K followers, [----] engagements

"The Newcastle Family - a dining room with several people seated in a circle and telling stories William Cavendish 1st Duke of Newcastle & Margaret Lucas Cavendish #writer seated at right and wearing laurel crowns. Abraham van Diepenbeeck c. [----]. (British Museum)"
X Link 2026-02-11T17:41Z 38.4K followers, [---] engagements

"Lion Albrecht Drer (Albertina Vienna)"
X Link 2026-02-11T17:53Z 38.4K followers, [----] engagements

"The habits of the Grand Signors Court c. [----]. A woman playing a kemene. (British Museum)"
X Link 2026-02-11T18:09Z 38.4K followers, [---] engagements

"11 Feb 1503: d. Elizabeth of York Queen consort of Henry VII & Mother to Henry VIII #otd"
X Link 2026-02-11T18:10Z 38.4K followers, [----] engagements

"Mercy Seat second half of the 12th century German (Albertina Vienna)"
X Link 2026-02-11T18:11Z 38.4K followers, [----] engagements

"11 Feb 1618: Antoon Van Dyck becomes Master of the Artists' Guild of St. Luke at #Antwerp #otd"
X Link 2026-02-11T21:22Z 38.4K followers, [---] engagements

"Saints of [--] [--] [--] Feb French calendar 17thC (British Museum) St Eulalia of Barcelona St Fusca & St Maura St Valentine St Antoninus of Sorrento"
X Link 2026-02-12T13:20Z 38.4K followers, [---] engagements

"Emerald vessel finished [----]. This giant emerald comes from the Muzo mine in Colombia which the Spaniards discovered in [----]. The raw stone which is two crystals grown together was probably bought by Emperor Rudolf II. [----] x [---] x [---] cm (Kunsthistorisches Museum Wien)"
X Link 2026-02-12T17:42Z 38.4K followers, [----] engagements

"12 Feb 1601: Capt Thomas Lee former soldier in #Ireland tries to persuade Sir Henry Nevillle & Sir Robert Gosse to seize Elizabeth I & force her to release the Earl of #Essex #otd He is executed on the 14th (Tate)"
X Link 2026-02-12T20:58Z 38.4K followers, [---] engagements

"12 Feb 1601: Capt Thomas Lee former soldier in #Ireland tries to persuade Sir Henry Nevillle & Sir Robert Gosse to seize Elizabeth I & force her to release the Earl of #Essex #otd He is executed on the 14th (Tate"
X Link 2026-02-12T21:25Z 38.4K followers, [---] engagements

"Cranmer's 'A Defence of the True and Catholike Doctrine of the Sacrament of the Body and Bloud of Our Saviour Christ 1550' Annotated by Elizabeth I. (Royal Collection Trust HM CIII)"
X Link 2026-02-12T22:04Z 38.4K followers, [---] engagements

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