Eating Collection (#31)

An Apple a Day
An apple a day keeps the doctor away

Santorios Balance C16
Santorio (b.1561) weighed himself for 24 hour periods and proved that weight gain or loss varied according to the type of food consumed

Kids Eating Ice Cream
Three happy little girls, eating ice creams!

Serving Goose at Banquet
Serving the Christmas dinner in a grand mansion - the dance of the fools accompanies the second course of pheasant

Wagner / With Bulows / Home
RICHARD WAGNER German composer at home with his wife, Cosima, members of the von Bulow family and others

Social / China Junks C1840
Junks passing an inclined plane on the Imperial canal in China; citizens mill around, one man smokes a pipe on his boat, others buy and eat rice from a stall

Two eggs on an Easter greetings card
An egg in an egg cup, with its top taken off, and a second egg waiting to be eaten when the first ones finished, on this German Easter greetings card

People at a medieval banquet
A banquet is enjoyed by some important people

Little girl eating an ice cream, Cornwall
Close-up of a little girl sitting on a mooring post in a Cornwall harbour, eating an ice cream

Hunters feasting on horse flesh in prehistoric southern France

A depiction of Gluttony, with people feasting greedily at a table, while a poor old man begs for a few coins. Some have too much, others have too little

Classroom scene, with pupils eating at their desks
A classroom scene, with pupils eating their midday meal at their desks, at an unidentified mixed school

Cannibalism of North America
Franciscans eaten by the Caribs of North America

Freddy meets the Little Man who had a little gun
Freddy meets another of his nursery rhyme heroes, the Little Man who had a little gun. Also at the table is Mary, Quite Contrary, as can be seen by her expression

Monsieur Luigi in his restaurant, with tables full of rich people behind him

School dinner, primary school in Wales
Primary school pupils in Wales having their school dinner

Romans Eating at Home
Roman eating scene (actually the profligate son of the tragedian Aesop dining off priceless singing-birds) - in Valerius Maximus, Facta et dicta Memorabilia, 1475

Herakles and the Mares
The eighth labour : He tames the vicious human-flesh-eating mares of Diomedes, king of the Bitones, giving them Diomedes to eat then taking them to Eurystheus

Reptiles / Turtles / Hunting
Catching turtles is not quite so good as eating them, but it is very good sport, I can tell you

Servants at Table
Servants at table - a manservant, dining with the cook, reprimands the page for bringing him a steel fork (as opposed to silver)

Arab Man Eating at Home
Arab men eating at home

Norsemen at Banquet
Norsemen at table in medieval Scandinavia

Christmas Dinner / 1960S
A family enjoy their Christmas pudding on Christmas Day. Date: 1960s

Cyclops Eating People
The Cyclops Polyphemus, eating people

Trench Life 1916
A Square Meal in a Square Hole! : British troops take comfort in a meal amid the discomfort of trench life and the trials of warfare

1930S Xmas Dinner
Four people prepare to enjoy their Christmas dinner at the table

Paris Patisserie / 1890
Women and children tucking into eclairs and other tasty cakes in a Parisian patisserie

Lancers and their Horses
A group of lancers rest with their horses

Miracle / Clares Bread
When Saint Clare of Assisi, Italy, blesses the convent bread before eating, a cross miraculously appears on the rolls, like hot cross buns

Napoleon / Pitt / World / 1805
The Plumb-pudding in danger Napoleon and Pitt carve up the world at dinner

Little Jack Horner 1818
Little Jack Horner Sat in a corner Eating a Christmas pie; He put in his thumb, And pull d out a

French Bath House 1514
People in a French bath house, bathing and eating

Otter Eating Fish
An otter with a fish in its mouth

Cottage in Co. Donegal
A Irish peasants cottage in County Donegal with a wheelbarrow and spade outside and pigs eating from a bowl

Fat Boy Tucks in 19C
A fat boy tucks in to the contents of a table groaning with food

Children Picnic in Woods
Two girls and a boy have a picnic in a wood

Three Girls have Tea
Three little girls have a tea party at a round table

Boy at Breakfast 1932
A young boy at breakfast

Social / Eating out 1933
People eating out in La Place du Tertre, Montmartre, Paris

Bird-Eating Spider C1870
A Bird-Eating Spider lives up to its name

Jack Sprat / Greenaway
Jack Sprat could eat no fat, his wife could eat no lean, and so between them both they licked the platter clean

Little Jack Horner (Bell
Little Jack Horner sits in a corner eating his Christmas pie, while a huge pot boils on the open fire beside him

Jack Horner (Greenaway)
Little Jack Horner sat in a corner, eating a Christmas pie; he put in his thumb and pulled out a plum and said, Oh, what a good boy am I !

Little Miss Muffet (Anon
A spider dangling from a tree is not a thing I like to see when I am eating curds and whey - and so I think I ll run away !

Dionysos & Ino / Myth
Ino & Bacchus (as a baby), eating grapes. Date: Classical

Goose Series (4 of 4)
The cooked goose is served (picture 4 of 4)

Bride Cuts Cake
As the bride rises to cut the cake, the guests think how much rather they would be eating Huntley and Palmers Superior Balmoral Biscuits

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