Boiling Collection

Diego Velazquez (1599-1660). Old Woman Cooking Eggs, 1618
Diego Velazquez (1599-1660). Spanish Baroque painter. The Old Woman Cooking Eggs, 1618. Oil on canvas. National Gallery of Scotland, Edinburgh

Womens Institute activities during the First World War, making jam and wicker baskets to help with the war effort. 1915

Advert for Cadburys cup chocolate
Hot Chololate instantly by simply shaking the soft flakes into a cup of boiling hot milk. 1930

Macbeth / Witches / Cauldron
Act IV, Scene I The witches in their cavern, gathered around the boiling cauldron; " in the poisn d entrails throw"

Advertisement for Doctors China Tea by Gladys Peto, done in her characteristic decorative style. Date: c.1924

Siege of a medieval castle. Knights in armour, archers and soldiers on ladders storm a castle defended by soldiers throwing rocks and boiling oil

Frys Chocolates
Advertisement for Frys Chocolate and Cocoa Manufactory in Bristol showing illustrations of the roasting room, boiling sugar, grinding chocolate, the pan room

Sir James Dewar / Cig Card
SIR JAMES DEWAR Scottish chemist and physicist

Model Maid-Of-All-Work
The model maid of all work is kept busy in the scullery cleaning boots, boiling kettles and pans, and responding to the bells that are constantly rung for her

Cockle gathering at Penclawdd 1857
Eight miles from Swansea on the Loughor river, women gathering and preparing cockles for market. Date: 1857

Te Tarata hot springs, Rotomahana, New Zealand
View of the Te Tarata hot springs by Lake Rotomahana, North Island, New Zealand -- thermal springs with encrusted terraces

Brewery Boiling the Beer
Boiling the beer in an American brewery

Boiling eggs at the Beppu Hot Springs, Japan
A sign advertising the option to boil an egg at the Beppu Hot Springs, Beppu, Japan. The city was founded on April 1, 1924, and is famous for its onsen (hot springs), which are regarded as sacred

Salt Workers Droitwich
Droitwich in Worcestershire was the centre of extensive works producing salt from brine. Conditions in the brine boiling sheds were arduous

Trades in Regency England: Ale-house, silk mill and stocking weaver. Customers drinking Burton ale outside a pub 49, workers dying and drying silk in a mill in Derby 50

Rattlesnake, hummingbirds and fireflies
The rattlesnake, Crotalus cerastes 55, Trochilinae hummingbirds 56 and man reading a book by the light of fireflies in a vial 57. Handcoloured copperplate engraving from Rev

Family of woodcutters in Austria, 1822. The man stands with an axe, while his wife breastfeeds a child near a well. Familia dei Taalialeana nell Austria

Boiling a kettle by will power 1932
Major Raymond Phillips with the apparatus, by which he claimed to cause an electrical gramophone or kettle to operate. The human body acted, he said, as an earth

The punishment for adultery in Guinea (Slave Coast). A man is roasted alive in front of his lover, who is tied in a pit and scalded with boiling water

Boiling pans and wringers for bleaching cloth, 18th century. Copperplate engraving by Wilson Lowry after a drawing by John Farey from Abraham Rees Cyclopedia or Universal Dictionary of Arts

Soapmaker cutting hardened soap with a copper
Soap boiler making soap in a factory. A man stirs a vat of boiling fat and ley, while another cuts the hardened soap with a copper wire in wooden frames

People working in a soap and candle factory, south London
People working in the B T & W Hawes soap and candle factory on the south bank of the River Thames in London, showing soap-boiling coppers. 1842

New York railway engineers at Borden Camp, WW1
A company of New York railway engineers at Borden Camp, Hampshire, during the First World War, boiling dixies for tea. 1914-1918

Advert for H. W Johns, asbestos materials for roofing 1875
Company based in New York, advertising asbestos roofing, used in roof coating, cement, paint, boiling felt and steam packing. 1875

Poster, Chart IV, Vitamin C in cabbage, WW2
Poster, Chart IV, Vitamin C in cabbage. 1940s

Old New Orleans Kitchen Date: 1950

Cultivation in the West Indies 1849
Interior of a sugar boiling house, Jamaica, West Indies. Date: 1849

Te Tarata hot springs, Rotomahana, New Zealand
View of the Te Tarata hot springs by Lake Rotomahana, North Island, New Zealand -- thermal springs with encrusted terraces. Date: circa 1866

Two women cooking - near mosque, Uchisar, Cappadocia, Turkey
Two Turkish women cook food over an open fire beneath the walls and minaret of a mosque in Uchisar, Cappadocia, Turkey Date: 1992

Curry shop, Delhi, India
A chef squats by a huge cooking pot and cooks curry in an open air curry shop and restaurant in Old Delhi, India Date: 1987

Maori Women Boiling water in a hot pool - Rotorua, New Zealand. Date: circa 1910s

Hells Half Acre, Yellowstone, 1883
Engraving of Hells Half Acre ; the boiling, muddy springs of Yellowstone National Park, 1883

Boiling pot at Victoria Falls, Zambezi River
Victoria Falls, located about midway along the course of the Zambezi River, at the border between Zambia to the north and Zimbabwe to the south. Date: Circa 1910

Bulldogs Soup - I cannot eat it it smells of Boche
La Soupe de chien - J peux pas manger. 硠 sent le Boche. Dogs Soup - I cannot eat. it smells of Boche !. A kilted Scottish soldier and a French sailor

Boiling Vats for Linen in the Bleaching Process
Boiling Vats forLinen in the Bleaching Process - an interior view showing vats and steam in a spinning mill, in the linen process. (Location: Ireland). Date: circa early 1900s

City gent in a park, using an ingenious water-boiling spirit-powered stove stored in his bowler hat -- an invention by Alistair McBride. The stove has sufficient fuel to boil three kettles per day

John the Evangelist. One of the Twelve Apostles of Jesus. En
John the Evangelist. One of the Twelve Apostles of Jesus. Traditionally, he is identified as the author of the Gospel of John

Owakudani - Hakone National Park, Japan - Boiling Waters
Owakudani ( Hell Valley ) - brave (or foolish!) tourists getting close to the boiling sulphuric volcanic springs at the Hakone National Park Date: circa 1910s

Caricature, Mary Elizabeth Braddon and Charles H Ross
Caricature, Mary Elizabeth Braddon (1835-1915), popular English novelist, and Charles Henry Ross (1835-1897), English journalist, artist and novelist -- Fair Boiling-Down Fiction Trade

A Pot of Hot Tea
What could be nicer than a pot of hot tea served from your favourite kettle into a lovely china teapot with matching tea set? Date: 1930s

Advert for Alexander Clark breakfast dishes 1904
Single and double breakfast dishes, heated with boiling water. Date: 1904

Robins on a New Year card, preparing for a tea party. Date: circa 1890s

The Empire Cookery Book - Advertisement for Electric Cookers
The Empire Cookery Book - Advertisement promoting the benefits of an Electric Cooker. Date: 1920s

Illustration, White-Ear runs out of the kitchen
Illustration, White-Ear the fox runs out of the kitchen as a maid throws boiling water on him. Date: 1912

The enemy trying their tommy - scalders by W H Robinson
Humorous illustration showing more treacherous German ideas for making life difficult for British troops. Soldiers in the trenches are being scalded by Germans sending boiling hot water in kettles by

Advert for Freemans Turtlekon soup 1919
Turtlekon delicious real turtle soup. A cup of hot Turtlekon is a feast for an epicure - each little cube - ample for one person - provides in a highly concentrated form all the rich nourishment

Gipsy Cauldron
Boiling something wrapped in a tea towel in a cauldron on a gipsy encampment at Penshurst, Kent, England. Date: 1973

Joseph Chamberlain as Mephistopheles boiling Radicals
The Radical Inferno. Joseph Chamberlain as Mephistopheles boiling his Radical political opponents (who were against his proposals for Tariff Reform) - including Henry Campbell-Bannerman (foreground)

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