Andy (he/him)
@eprenprof.bsky.social
Scholar of the early modern now in south Texas. My book, English National Identity and the Image of the Dutch: From the Armada to the Glorious Revolution, came out with Palgrave early in 2024. Posts represent my personal opinion, not my employer’s.
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Singing and smoking with Captain Lord George Graham in his Cabin 1745. Wig's off -- but dog at the right is wearing it instead! Painted by William Hogarth, born OTD in 1697.
November 10, 2025 at 6:42 PM
Singing and smoking with Captain Lord George Graham in his Cabin 1745. Wig's off -- but dog at the right is wearing it instead! Painted by William Hogarth, born OTD in 1697.
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Abduction of Proserpina, by Giambologna, 1579 (from the @NortonSimon Museum in Pasadena), 📸 by @nturchiarophoto
November 2, 2025 at 3:13 PM
Abduction of Proserpina, by Giambologna, 1579 (from the @NortonSimon Museum in Pasadena), 📸 by @nturchiarophoto
It’s so nice in #portland! Leaves are changing. Ran into a bunch of old friends at the conference registration. Looking forward to things getting started tomorrow.
October 30, 2025 at 12:17 AM
It’s so nice in #portland! Leaves are changing. Ran into a bunch of old friends at the conference registration. Looking forward to things getting started tomorrow.
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Born OTD 100 years ago, legendary late night host Johnny Carson (d 2005). A show biz career that started in the US Navy in World War II finished up with 3 decades of hosting The Tonight Show.
October 23, 2025 at 11:27 AM
Born OTD 100 years ago, legendary late night host Johnny Carson (d 2005). A show biz career that started in the US Navy in World War II finished up with 3 decades of hosting The Tonight Show.
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Angry woman -- the beer jug is empty! By Pieter Huys, another Bosch follower. It's their day.
October 22, 2025 at 6:06 PM
Angry woman -- the beer jug is empty! By Pieter Huys, another Bosch follower. It's their day.
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Today I worked with Adam Smith's copy of Hobbes's "Leviathan" (1651)
October 22, 2025 at 8:18 AM
Today I worked with Adam Smith's copy of Hobbes's "Leviathan" (1651)
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Frances Harper was the most prolific African American woman author of the nineteenth century & as prominent as Frederick Douglass, Susan B. Anthony, & Elizabeth Cady Stanton.
2025 is the bicentennial of her birth. Broadview’s offer remains on my edition of IOLA LEROY as well as Jacobs’s INCIDENTS.
2025 is the bicentennial of her birth. Broadview’s offer remains on my edition of IOLA LEROY as well as Jacobs’s INCIDENTS.
October 21, 2025 at 12:44 PM
Frances Harper was the most prolific African American woman author of the nineteenth century & as prominent as Frederick Douglass, Susan B. Anthony, & Elizabeth Cady Stanton.
2025 is the bicentennial of her birth. Broadview’s offer remains on my edition of IOLA LEROY as well as Jacobs’s INCIDENTS.
2025 is the bicentennial of her birth. Broadview’s offer remains on my edition of IOLA LEROY as well as Jacobs’s INCIDENTS.
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The oldest library in the Americas is Biblioteca Palafoxiana in Puebla, Mexico.
Established in 1646 by the Spanish Bishop of Puebla & interim Viceroy of Mexico, Juan de Palafox y Mendoza, with a donation of 5,000 books from his personal library.
It has 41,000 books from the 15th to 20th centuries.
Established in 1646 by the Spanish Bishop of Puebla & interim Viceroy of Mexico, Juan de Palafox y Mendoza, with a donation of 5,000 books from his personal library.
It has 41,000 books from the 15th to 20th centuries.
October 15, 2025 at 12:23 PM
The oldest library in the Americas is Biblioteca Palafoxiana in Puebla, Mexico.
Established in 1646 by the Spanish Bishop of Puebla & interim Viceroy of Mexico, Juan de Palafox y Mendoza, with a donation of 5,000 books from his personal library.
It has 41,000 books from the 15th to 20th centuries.
Established in 1646 by the Spanish Bishop of Puebla & interim Viceroy of Mexico, Juan de Palafox y Mendoza, with a donation of 5,000 books from his personal library.
It has 41,000 books from the 15th to 20th centuries.
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Happy birthday, Michel Foucat! 99 years ago today.
October 15, 2025 at 12:32 PM
Happy birthday, Michel Foucat! 99 years ago today.
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Tulips, from Florilegium novum (New Book of Flowers)
Johann Theodor de Bry
c. 1612
(Yale University)
Johann Theodor de Bry
c. 1612
(Yale University)
October 14, 2025 at 11:49 AM
Tulips, from Florilegium novum (New Book of Flowers)
Johann Theodor de Bry
c. 1612
(Yale University)
Johann Theodor de Bry
c. 1612
(Yale University)
I love this painting so much. I saw it (at the Ufizzi?) three decades ago, purchased a print, carried it around Europe, had it framed when I started my first academic job, and have had it on my walls ever since. Stunning is right!
By Fra Filippo Lippi, Madonna and Child with Two Angels, 1465. Everything about this picture is stunning but I really love the angel smiling at us!
October 7, 2025 at 3:00 PM
I love this painting so much. I saw it (at the Ufizzi?) three decades ago, purchased a print, carried it around Europe, had it framed when I started my first academic job, and have had it on my walls ever since. Stunning is right!
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Cease thou from strivinge to maken "fetch" to happen
#MeanGirlsDay
#MeanGirlsDay
October 3, 2025 at 8:05 PM
Cease thou from strivinge to maken "fetch" to happen
#MeanGirlsDay
#MeanGirlsDay
This is a pretty rad early modern landscape
Dawn breaks over foothills of Alps. A strange wind blows, & in distance at right, crosses of Golgotha are empty. Gorgeous work by Wolf Huber.
October 3, 2025 at 3:49 PM
This is a pretty rad early modern landscape
Check this out @peterpaulrubens.bsky.social
October 3, 2025 at 3:47 PM
Check this out @peterpaulrubens.bsky.social
O for a Muse of Fire that would ascend The brightest heaven of invention! A kingdom for a stage, princes to act, And monarchs to behold that Congress has not authorized the use of military force!
It is a truth universally acknowledged that Congress has not authorized the use of military force.
Attention I ask from all the sacred people, greater and lesser offspring of Heimdall! Congress has not authorized the use of military force.
October 3, 2025 at 11:58 AM
O for a Muse of Fire that would ascend The brightest heaven of invention! A kingdom for a stage, princes to act, And monarchs to behold that Congress has not authorized the use of military force!
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Portrait of St Carlo Borromeo Ambrogio Giovanni Figino 1563-1608 (British Museum) This quintessential saint of Catholic reform was born #otd 2 Oct 1538.
October 2, 2025 at 9:55 PM
Portrait of St Carlo Borromeo Ambrogio Giovanni Figino 1563-1608 (British Museum) This quintessential saint of Catholic reform was born #otd 2 Oct 1538.
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For anyone teaching Shakespeare this semester: Here’s the hub of Shakespearean performances & other videos I’ve been developing over the last couple of years for teaching. Feel free to use & share it widely! sites.google.com/ncsu.edu/the...
The Shakespeare Media Archive
sites.google.com
August 19, 2025 at 12:47 PM
For anyone teaching Shakespeare this semester: Here’s the hub of Shakespearean performances & other videos I’ve been developing over the last couple of years for teaching. Feel free to use & share it widely! sites.google.com/ncsu.edu/the...
I really like this Tintoretto painting of St Jerome.
September 30, 2025 at 9:13 PM
I really like this Tintoretto painting of St Jerome.
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September 30, 2025 at 9:12 PM
Today is the feast day of St Jerome. I used to have a copy of this Durer print above my desk. I love the quiet stillness of his study and the light streaming in through the windows.
September 30, 2025 at 11:11 AM
Today is the feast day of St Jerome. I used to have a copy of this Durer print above my desk. I love the quiet stillness of his study and the light streaming in through the windows.