John McCafferty

Pair of chopines c. 1600 Venice These are made of pine-wood which is covered in kid leather with punched decoration & figured silk underlay. (V&A, 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)

23 July 1433: The Bohemian Hussite Pavel Kravar is burnt at St Andrews #otd

23 July 1649: b. Giovanni Francesco Albani, future Clement XI, in Urbino #otd Rebuilder of #Rome, ruled against the #Jesuits in the #Chinese rites controversy

23 July 1576: Walter Devereux Earl of #Essex & Earl Marshal of #Ireland lands in #Dublin #otd Died there of dysentery 22 September (NPG)

Shoe, c. 1660-1680, English. Leather, pigskin, silk, silk thread, woven silk lace, linen thread, hand sewn. (V&A Museum, London)

White plate with symmetrical spray of mirrored saz leaves, carnations and tulips, Turkey (probably Iznik), c. 1575. (Victoria & Albert Museum, London)

Key, 15th century, possibly French (Met Museum)

Angel with the flail and column from the Christoph Fugger altarpiece, designed and made by Hubert Gerhard, German, c. 1581-4 (Victoria & Albert Museum, London)

23 July 1584: d. John Day[e] godly printer & bookseller #otd He was the printer of John Foxe's massively influential Acts and Monuments (BM)

23 July 1536: d. Henry Fitzroy, son of Elizabeth Blount and Henry VIII. (NPG) Another potential Henry IX that wasn't.

Four Figures on a Step, c. 1655–60 Bartolomé Esteban Murillo (Kembell Art Museum)

23 July 1532: b. St Alphonsus Rodriguez, early #Jesuit, doorkeeper, counsellor, laybrother #otd (Prado - by Zurbaran)

23 July 1441: John Lowe OSA, Bishop of Rochester, preaches at the public recantation of necromancer Roger Bolingbroke #otd. Bolingbroke had named Eleanor (Cobham) Duchess of Gloucester as the instigator. (Lowe's tomb: Giogo)

The XII Mounthes of the Yeare in the Habits of Severall Nations: July London, 1621/23 Iulie's hot scorching month is figur'd by The sun-tann'd Moores black physiognomy The sign is Virgo which may be exprest A naked Virgins bewty flames the best (British Museum)

23 July 1436: Margery Kempe persuades a local priest to begin rewriting her spriritual autobiography #otd The Booke of Margery Kempe (The image here is the start of BL Add MS 61823)

Braided ivory-coloured satin shoe for a young child; made in England, 1680-1699 (V&A, London)

Saint Francis in Ecstasy Giovanni Battista Crespi c.1575-1632 Hatton Gallery

Still Life with a Bowl of Strawberries, Basket of Cherries, and Branch of Gooseberries, 1631 Louise Moillon (Kimbell Art Museum)

Penitent Mary Magdalene, 1625-26 Artemisia Gentileschi (Kimbell Art Museum)