#17th century
Costume designed by Sandy Powell for Olivia Colman in The Favourite (2018)
From the Irish Costume Archive Project
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Costume designed by Joan Bergin for Kate Winslet in A Little Chaos (2014)
From the Irish Costume Archive Project
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As you know, our librarians here at Wilson Library love finding all the mermaids in our special collections. So today, when we came across multiplemer-beings in our stacks, we knew we had to share them with our Tumblr followers.
These mer-men (and mer-creatures and mer-clergymen) were found in our Rare Books Collection’s copy of Physica Curiosa, a 17th century text dealing with a wide range of subjects including zoology, cryptozoology, obstetrical abnormalities, and demonology. Although Gaspar Schott includes all manner of centaurs, monster-chickens, wolf-men, and other oddities in Physica Curiosa, these mermaids are definitely our favorite cryptid of the book.
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Silver cased verge watch in the form of a human skull. 1655-1665.
The inscription reads “vita fugitur, aesterna respice, caduca despice, incertita hora.” (life is fleeting, look upon eternity, look down on a fallen thing, the hour of death is uncertain)
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Oil painting on canvas, of Queen Mary of Modena (1658-1718)by studio of Sir Peter Lely (Soest 1618 – London 1680). 1678. A three-quarter-length portrait, almost facing, seated with a dog at her left side, wearing a brownish-red dress and blue cloak; relief of putti, left.
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William II, Prince of Orange and Princess Henrietta Mary Stuart, daughter of Charles I of England, 1641,Anthony van Dyck
Medium: oil,canvas
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Mary “wept grievously all the morning” of her departure from London. She and the prince took a barge from Whitehall, accompanied by the king and queen, the duke of York, the duchess of Monmouth, and other courtiers. When Queen Catherine tried to comfort her with stories of her own experience as a young bride
in a foreign country, she replied petulantly, “but, madam, you came into England, but I am going out of England.”Love, Friendship and Power: Queen Mary II’s letters to Frances Apsley- Molly McClain
25 September 1615 ✧ The death of Lady Arbella Stuart
“Arbella’s life seemed to have ended not with a bang, but with a whimper—and that is no finish for a story. It is true she left not obvious legacy: in the most direct sense, her few goods were immediately seized on the privy council’s authority. In the broader sense, her contribution is an elusive matter. And yet, almost four hundred years after her death, she does not live in posterity. Several chains of action and event—genealogical, historical, ideological—make it hard to end her tale in 1615. They are tenuous, amorphous; so much so that to overemphasize any one is to perform the conjurer’s trick of misdirection. To proclaim that this, this, is why she mattered, is to evoke a strong aroma of sawn-up lady. But together the fragments of the kaleidoscope make Arbella Stuart a curiously ubiquitous ghost; one whose presence cannot easily be dismissed, thought she may haunt only the fringes of history.” – Sarah Gristwood, Arbella: England’s Lost Queen
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Aeneas and His Father Fleeing Troy
Simon Vouet (French; 1590–1649)
ca. 1635
Oil on canvas
San Diego Museum of Art, San Diego, California
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The Lamentation
Domenichino (Domenico Zampieri) (Italian; 1581–1641)
1603
Oil on copper
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
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