17th century Archives

17th century

Cocoa Buff

From a passage dated December 30, 1668, in the journal of Edward Montagu, first Earl of Sandwich, discovered earlier this year by Kate Loveman and partially quoted in The Journal…

Crystal Boyle

by Robert Boyle,

The mirror of life

by Jonathan Bate,

How Shakespeare conquered the world

The last drop

by Thomas Gloning, Janet Clarkson,

I never

by Francisco de Pareja,Edited by Jerald T. Milanich, William C. Sturtevant,

Untitled

by Cotton Mather,

Flowers of greed

by Matthew Mills Stevenson,

Tulips in the ages of exuberance

The Countess of Stanlein restored

by Nicholas Delbanco,

Sound and soundness in a Stradivarius violoncello

Scenes from a marriage

by John Berger,

The portrait as barren landscape

Eye of the beholder

by Hugh Kenner,

Photographers and seventeenth-century Dutch painters demonstrate the fine art of just looking

Wraparound

by Harper’s Staff,