Dinner Collection (#11)

The Kitchen of The George
Kitchen of a busy hotel or public house showing the staff sitting around a large table for a tea break and spot of lunch. Date: 1932

Christmas Day 1854
A page of vignettes showing how Christmas Day was traditionally celebrated by Victorian families in the 1850s. Stockings and present giving was followed by church

The Bill by Douglas Mackenzie
" The Bill" : An old comedy in one act. Covent Garden Ball Supper. Time: 2 A.M. Naughty Old Gentleman (between his teeth): Dear me

Latest fashionable designs 1913
Women models wearing fashionable clothing for spring, charming dinner gown in royal-blue satin silk veiled in embroidered net and a woman wearing tailor-made walking suit. Date: 1913

Advert for Peter Robinsons womens dressy blouses 1915
Women wearing black net blouses trimmed with black ribbon high neck collar, suitable for dinner and evening wear. 1915

Royal Engineers Annual Reunion Dinner, 1925
Members of the Railway Operating Division, Royal Engineers Annual Reunion Dinner in 1925. Date: 1925

Trinity College, Cambridge - social group photograph
A large group of men and women pictured in the market square in Cambridge. Everyone is dressed in evening attire so look as if they are attending a formal ball or dinner. Date: 1911

Debating Society dinner, Trinity College, Cambridge
Members of the Gas-Works debating society of Trinity College, Cambridge University pictured at a formal dinner in 1911. Date: 1911

Cartoon, Henry Irving and Edward, Prince of Wales -- an invitation to Marlborough House. Irving says: The fact is, I am so pestered with invitations to dinner, that you really must excuse me! 1883

Dinner in a St Ives restaurant -- one of a great series of studies of St Ives, Cornwall. circa 1946

Sketch by Fish of dinner at the Berkeley, London, 1926
Sketch by Fish of dinner at the Berkeley Hotel, London, 1926 Date: 1926

Art deco sketches of the dining experience, London, 1921 Date: 1921

Christmas goose in the trenches, WW1
Soldiers celebrate the arrival of the Christmas goose. Date: 1914

Dinner at the Chambre d Amour, Biarritz
Impression of diners at the Chambre d Amour at the fashionable French resort of Biarritz in 1934. Date: 1934

Woman in a dinner party dress
Woman in a pale pink dinner party dress and an elaborate feathered hat. 1827

Woman in a dinner dress
Woman in a grey dinner dress. 1827

The Last Supper - John 13. circa 1688

British Caribbean man at a Christmas office dinner party
British Caribbean man at a Christmas office dinner in Nottingham - sitting between two English girls, laughing. Date: 1990s

African couple, smiling at the camera at a dinner at the Con
Nottingham. African couple, smiling at the camera at a dinner at the British Consulate a in Nottingham Man wearing black suit and stripe tie, woman in stripe dress. Date: 1960s

British Consulate dinner in Nottingham Nottingham, including people from diverse ethnicity at the dinner table. Date: 1960s

African man and wife around the dinner table at a Consulate
British Consulate event in Nottingham. African man and wife facing the camera around the dinner table. People seated in the back of the picture, eating and drinking. Date: 1960s

Advertisement for Premet fashions, showing elegant people in evening dress at the Hotel George V. 1929

The Host Who Forgot To Approve The Dish by H M Bateman, this illustration shows a group of people about to have dinner, but the host has forgotten to approve the dish

Two Helpings of Capon Farci aux Truffles by H. M. Bateman
A rather rotund looking gentleman savours a tiny portion of French cuisine at a restaurant as the chef and waiters wait anxiously for his reaction. Date: 1925

Dresses for dining 1910
Four women wearing fashionable dinner dresses with high waists. 1910

The Gentle Art of Living by H. M. Bateman
A couple enjoy a pleasant dinner in a restaurant, garnished with champagne and the attendance of a waiter. Date: 1925

Gordon Boys Home, Nottingham - Laying Tables for Dinner
Gordon Boys Home, Nottingham - boys lay plates on the tables for dinner. Date: circa 1916

An Irish Harvesters Dinner, Potatoes and Buttermilk - a view of an old woman in a field lying against a corn stack and having a meal of potatoes and buttermilk

Susi - enjoying her dinner. 1950s

Susi - losing her dinner to a much bigger dog. 1950s

Susi - with empty food bowl, looking hungry. 1950s

The Spell by H. M. Bateman
A gentleman is mesmerised by the languid glance of a lady acquaintance. Date: 1932

School for Deaf Boys, Anerley, London - dinner time
The London School Boards Anerley Residential School for Older Deaf Boys - boys eating dinner in one of the Schools cottage homes. Date: early 1900s

Drury Lane Day Industrial School, London - Preparing Dinner
Girls help cook dinner at the Drury Lane Day Industrial School. Date: early 1900s

Three monkeys with moveable heads on a Christmas card
Three monkeys with moveable heads sitting at a dinner table on a Christmas card. Date: circa 1890s

Canadian Pacific Steamers, promenade deck
Canadian Pacific Steamers have spacious promenade decks -- children on a Third Class promenade deck, with a specimen Third Class menu printed at the side. Date: circa 1930s

A dinner party, China - five men around a rather small octagonal table eating bowls of rice. Date: circa 1908

History of Medicine. Modern Age. Carity Hospital. Engraving. 17th century. Colored

Fridtjof Nansen (1861-1930). Norwegian scientist. Banquet in
Fridtjof Nansen (1861-1930). Norwegian explorer, scientist, diplomat, humanitarian and Nobel Peace Prize laureate in 1922. Banquet in his honour at Britannia hotel in Trondhjem. Sketch of Mr

Banquet. Engraving. 20th century
Banquet offered to guests at an opening ceremony. Engraving. Early 20th century. Colored engraving

Gold bowl and jar from Oxus Treasure. 5th-4th centuries BC
Oxus Treasure. Gold bowls and jar. 5th-4th centuries BC. From Takht-i Kuwad, Tajikistan. British Museum. London. England. United Kingdom

Travel to India of the Prince of Wales. Gala Dinner held in the Underground Temple of Elephanta on the occasion of the visit of the Prince. Recorded the 19th century. Coloured

Cartoon, H J Byron and J L Toole at dinner
Cartoon, Henry James Byron (standing, 1835-1884), English dramatist, editor, journalist, director, theatre manager, novelist and actor, and John Lawrence Toole (seated, 1830-1906)

Caricature of Augustus Harris, British actor and dramatist
Caricature of Augustus Harris (1852-1896), British actor, dramatist and impresario, transformed into a goose -- Not " Old Mother Goose" but Master Augoosetus

Two nervous Edwardian Gentlemen - possibly twins
Tennis Illustrated - Doubles ! Two slightly nervous Edwardian Twins fidget and fluster as they await their female companions for a night on the town... Date: circa 1904

Fairies roasting their dinner on a Christmas card
Some rather savage-looking fairies wearing rodent skins in the snow, roasting a rat over the fire for their dinner on a Christmas card. Date: circa 1890s

Bismarck Reading 1892
OTTO von BISMARCK reading after dinner Date: 1815 - 1898

George Lansbury Dines
GEORGE LANSBURY British politician and newspaper editor, leader of the Labour Party (1932-35). Also grandfather of actress Angela Lansbury. Date: 1859 - 1940

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