Boars Collection

Christmas scene with Santa Claus and yule log. There are rabbit musicians, geese pulling the log, a pudding, a boars head, and people carrying flaming torches. 19th century

The Graphic Christmas Number front cover 1932
Front cover of The Graphic Christmas Number for 1932 with an illustration of a lively medieval banquet, with a jester ushering an enormous boars head on a platter. Date: 1932

Lady Cook & Boars Head
The cook bears in the Boars Head

Old Boar's Head, Bishop's Stortford, Hertfordshire - Painted by landscape artist Alfred Robert Quinton for the Sevenoaks based publishing and printing company J

Two Boars
An etching of two rugged boars, one standing, one sitting on the grass beside a tree. Date: circa 1656

Group photograph: hunting wild boar, India
A group of people after a successful day hunting wild boar in India. Date: April 1917

Oliver Cromwells house
A view of a house in Westminster said to have been occupied by Oliver Cromwell. It was situated a little to the north of the Blue Boars Head Yard, by King Street. Date: 1875

Men on horseback hunting boars and bulls in ancient Etruria. The Etruscans trained dogs and falcons. From a gilded silver patera or bowl. Caccia

View of the Neapolitan Crypt or Crypta Neapolitana, ancient Roman road tunnel linking Naples to Pozzuoli on the Via Domiziana, Italy. Grotta di Posilippo

Preparing the Boars Head in the Royal Kitchen, Windsor Castle - Christmas with the Queen. 1898

Christmas at Windsor Castle, Royal banquet 1857
Royal banquet at Windsor Castle at Christmas time, engraving showing the procession of the two dishes being carried by smartly dressed waiters in blazing scarlet clothing, first

Christmas verse 1846
Page of Victorian men and women getting into the Christmas spirit! Indulging themselves in food, drink and song, and in the centre Old Father Christmas type with holly wreath upon his head, drinking

Bringing in the boars head at Christmas
A Christmas party in Elizabethan times: the traditional ringing in the boars head at Christmas time. Date: circa 16th century

OLD PUB SIGNS (PLATE 4)
Various old pub signs: Eagle and Child, Robin Hood and Little John, Griffin and Chair, Bolt-in-Tun, Boars Head, Bulls Head. (plate 4 in series)

16th century Banquet
Trumpeters announce the arrival of the Boars Head, brought in procession to the Christmas diners in an Elizabethan hall Date: 16th century

F Rush newsagent, Paradise Street, Marylebone, London
F Rush newsagent, tobacconist and confectioner, Paradise Street (now Moxon Street), off Marylebone High Street, London, with staff and customers posing outside. circa 1920

German Boar held at Verdun - Cartoon
The German Boar held at Verdun. Date: 1916

Christmas Morning - Decorating the Signboard. circa late 19th century

Table display -- boars head with vegetables. 19th century

Boars head. Woodcut. Date: circa 1770

Animals at a French Zoo - Wild Boar - Boars in small cage. Part of Box 209 Boswell collection - Old and New French Zoo. Date: circa 1900

Two pigs carrying in drinks on a French New Year postcard. Date: circa 1890s

Pigs with boars head on a Christmas card
Four sad-looking pigs carrying a boars head on a Christmas and New Year card. circa 1890s

Butler & Boars Head
The butler bears in the Boars Head Date: circa 1900

Bronze Boar Statue of the Mercato Nuevo, Florence, Italy. Pictured on a Thursday morning when the flower market was held - late springtime. Date: 1905

Bringing in the Boars Head (and the Colmans Mustard!) - Christmas Feasting tradition. Date: circa 17th century

The Graphic cover - Christmas Number 1910
Front cover of The Graphic Christmas Number for 1910 featuring a jester, servant and page boy in Tudor dress bringing in boars head at a festive feast. Date: 1910

Medieval feast
Front cover of Pan magazine, featuring a Medieval banquet scene. Date: 14th century

Sir James Calthorpe, Gentleman
Sir James Calthorpe of Norfolk (1604-1652) -- Vera Effigies Jacobi Calthorpe de East Basham (ie Barsham) in Comitatu Norfolciae Armigeri

Pastime With Good Company
This picture shows a Christmas scene at Henry VIIIs table as the boars head is carried in and The Kings Ballad (Pastime With Good Company) is sung. The song was composed by Henry VIII himself

Italy - Meran or Merano - Saltners
Since in the earliest paradise on record poor human nature found the plucking of forbidden fruit an irresistible temptation

SPAIN. CASTILE AND LEON. AVILA. El Tiemblo. Bulls of Guisando, boars or magical representations of the second iron age (c. 5th c. BC). Iron Age. Sculpture

Wild boars running, on cliffs, and near pine trees. Date 1720

Guests at a Christmas or New Years Party, possibly at the Savoy Hotel, London. Some of the guests are in medieval style fancy dress, carrying in the traditional Boars Head decorated with holly

Bringing in the boars head at Queens College, Oxford

Christmas Banquet C16
Trumpeters announce the arrival of the Boars Head, brought in procession to the Christmas diners in an Elizabethan hall

Chef & Boars Head
The chef bears in the Boars Head

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