1678 Gallery

The god Thor and goddess Nehalennia

Germanic or Norse deities: the god Thor and goddess Nehalennia. Labeled with their interpretatio romana translations Hercules Magusanus and Massom Salus (Massonius Laetus). Handcoloured copperplate engraving by Antonio Verico from Giulio Ferrario's Costumes Ancient and Modern of the Peoples of the World, Il Costume Antico e Moderno, Florence, 1844

© Florilegius

Miles Prance, Informer

MILES PRANCE, Catholic goldsmith who found fame during the Popish Plot as an informer, claiming to reveal the murderers of Edmund Berry Godfrey : perjurer, impostor. Date: flourished 1678 - 1689

© Mary Evans Picture Library

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VILADOMAT i MANALT, A.. The Spring

VILADOMAT i MANALT, Antoni (1678-1755). The Four Seasons: The Spring. 1st half 18th c. Modernism. Oil on canvas. SPAIN. CATALONIA. Barcelona. National Art Museum of Catalonia

© P. Rotger/Iberfoto/Mary Evans

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