Dinner Collection

The It Girl by George Whitelaw
Colour illustration showing an attractive socialite surrounded by attentive gentlemen

Queen Elizabeth II and the Kennedys
President John F Kennedy and his wife Jackie, pictured with Queen Elizabeth II and Prince Philip

Edmundo Ros Club in Regent Street, London drawn by Arthur Ferrier. Couples sit at lamplit tables while people dance, the band plays and the singer croons

Playing Table Tennis - Edwardian - Etiquette
I am not sure whether it is my turn. (to write the postcard or to serve!!) A smart Gentleman makes a courteous enquiry to his glamorous young female table tennis companion. Date: circa 1904

Bob Cratchit & Tiny Tim
Happy at the prospect of a hearty Christmas dinner, due to the generosity of the reformed Ebenezer Scrooge, Bob Cratchit carries his son Tiny Tim on his shoulder!

One of the Famly - a horse joins a family meal
One of the Family by Frederick George Cotman (original in the Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool). Cotman painted this romantic scene of rustic domestic life at the Black Boy Inn at Hurley on Thames

Strauss / Rosenkavalier / 6
ROSENKAVALIER the Princess of Werdenberg unites Count Octavian and Sophie von Faninal

Fat Geese! by Lawson Wood
A cheeky young lad chuckles to himself after placing a sign for fattened geese on the posterior of a rather plump lady who is herself choosing which goose to buy for her Christmas dinner. Date: 1909

The Gentleman Who Asked the Carver - H. M. Bateman
The Gentleman who asked the carver at Simpson s-in-the-Strand whether the meat was English or foreign

The Upside Down Dinner given by the Hendon Aviators to Bentfield Hucks and Gustav Hamel at the Royal Automobile Club on 16 January 1914

Suffragettes - Christmas Dinner in Holloway by Lawson Wood
Four portly prison officers and policemen force feed a handcuffed suffragette Christmas pudding from the police buffet trolley in Holloway Prison. Date: 1912

Hills. Christmas Is Coming. Cecil Aldin. 1898. jpg
Illustration by Cecil Aldin depicting a kindly Father Christmas reciting the traditional song, " Christmas is Coming, the Goose is getting Fat" to a gaggle of obviously dim geese

The Toast by William Heath Robinson
A charming and detailed scene showing a large extended family, or possibly group of villagers drinking a toast around a large table groaning with delicious fruit pies, turkey, jelly, soup

Golf Clubs and Golfers - Royal Blackheath dinner
Annual dinner of the Royal Blackheath Golf Club by Mel; the club was founded in 1608. Date: 1938

The Man Who Lit His Cigar Before The Royal Toast - Bateman
The Man Who Lit His Cigar Before The Royal Toast - H M Bateman. This illustration shows an arrogant man who has defied etiquette by lighting his cigar before the correct course of dinner

Market Reports - English Country Squire carves the beef
Market Reports illustrated (Postcard series): MEAT

Young woman washing clothes at a sink
A young woman at a kitchen sink washing clothes using a washboard. There is a stack of four dinner plates waiting to be washed up, a kettle, and a tin of One-O-One which cleans without scratching

Black Waiter with Thanksgiving Turkey
A jovial black waiter in America raises aloft the Thanksgiving Turkey on this Greetings card

Claridges Hotel Menu
A dinner menu from the Claridges Hotel, London

Fashionable Night-Spot
Smart people in a fashionable Paris nightclub. Dining and dancing and showing off their elegant evening clothes and dinner jacket

Christmas Cookery C1905
Preparing the Christmas dinner for all the family, not forgetting the kitten and the Household Gnome

Dinner given by Alexander Duckham at the Savoy Hotel honouring Louis Ble

Dewars advertisement
Advertisement for Dewars White Label whiskey showing four gentlemen smartly attired in evening wear enjoying a game of cards - and a glass of Dewar s. 1934

A Bonzo juggling act
Bonzo, the cute canine created by artist George Studdy in The Sketch magazine during the 1920s, performs a marvellous trick by balancing a plate, cutlery

Mr Pickwick Addresses
Mr Pickwick addresses the Club

Workers Going Home
Workers going home for their dinner (at mid-day) from the Great Western Railways works at Wolverton

Modern Style Home
A suburban home in the modern style - a visitor arrives for dinner

Mytton Rides Bear
JOHN MYTTON English eccentric decides to enliven a dinner party by riding a bear into the dining -room. The bear bit him on the calf & the doctor was called

Dinner in an aristocratic French home, with servants attending to everyones needs

The Queen and Duke of Edinburgh arrive at Ethiopian Embassy
Queen Elizabeth II and Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh, arriving at the Ethiopian Embassy for a private dinner party given by the Emperor of Ethiopia (Haile Selassie) during a visit to Britain

Cats enjoying a dinner party on a Christmas card. Date: circa 1890s

Mixed Bar Scene 1930S
A mixed bar scene, with two children standing in the bar doorway, perhaps sent to tell their father that his dinner is getting cold!

Ritz Dinner Time
Ladies don t go to the Ritz in Paris for anything so vulgar as the grub : rather, its to show off their evening creations by Jeanne Lanvin

Bill of fare from Crystal Palace, 31 / 12 / 1853
Menu for the dinner in the Iguanodon and original artwork by Benjamin Waterhouse Hawkins, donated by his granddaughter Mary Hawkins

Victorian family saying grace before dinner
A Victorian family saying grace at the dinner table

Dinner Party at Home
A lavish dinner party takes place in a French household

Man falling off a broken chair at a dinner party causing a servant to spill a soup tureen over him. Other guests shocked, servants amused. More Miseries

Supper Men About Town by Hynes
Five well known figures on the London social scene during the 1920s caricatured by Hynes in The Bystander

Banquet scene in the Egyptian Hall at Mansion House in London, 1808. Engraving by Augustus Pugin and Thomas Rowlandson for The Microcosm of London published by Rudolph Ackermann (1808-1810). Engraving

CROWE, Eyre (1824-1910). The Dinner Hour, Wigan. 1874. Oil on canvas. UNITED KINGDOM. Manchester. Manchester Art Gallery

Dinner Key Miami - Terminal Building, Florida, USA
The Terminal Building - Dinner Key, Coconut Grove neighborhood, Miami, Florida, USA. Pan American Airways Clipper Flying Boats - Sikorsky S-40R - only three ever built

Illustration by Cecil Aldin, The Snob. Sybil holds a dinner party for dogs, but when a smaller dog approaches a large dish of food, Fluffikins attacks him for his presumption

W. S. P. U Welcome Dinner Released Prisoners
W.S.P.U Welcome Dinner Released Prisoners. A menu for the Welcome Dinner in Honour of Released Prisoners, 16th February 1912. The prisoners including Mrs

Hungry Peter the pigs dinner party, with Tabitha the cat, Humpty and Dumpty the rabbits, two ducks (the Quacks), and two dogs (Rags and Forager) gathered round a long table. Date: 1914

A Little Supper Party by Hal Bevan Petman
Front cover of The Bystander featuring an illustration of a flirtatious looking flapper girl, enjoying a drink and a cigarette, but, apparently, very little food

Wartime cuisine - fish and chips
Wartime rashioning during the Second World War. A plate of steak and veg is a dream, but at least there is still fish and chips to keep the spirits up and the bellies full! Date: circa early 1940s

Christmas Dinner in an Elizabethan Home by Pauline Baynes
A Christmas Day scene in a well-to-do household around 1550, showing the father of the house at the table with his guests, raising his blackjack tankard to toast the Queen

Advertisement for the Kestos Backless Brassiere 1935
Advertisement for the Kestos Backless Brassiere

Family / Grace before Meal
Papa, mama, son and two daughters say grace before starting to eat

German Country Dinner
FAMILY MEAL Three generations of an idyllic German country family partake in a family meal in a farmhouse kitchen

Large Boy Eats Large Pie
A plump boy puts all his strength into eating a pie

Claridges Restaurant
Dining at CLARIDGEs HOTEL, Brook Street, is apt to be pricey - dinner could set you back anything from ten shillings and sixpence to twelve shillings and sixpence

Specimens of evolution at a grand dinner
The survival of the fittest -- specimens of evolution take part in a grand dinner. The handsome and the clever walk arm in arm, watched by many servants

Advert for the London fashion house of Fifinella, 1920 Date: 1920

Costume June 1886
Hand-coloured page of the latest Paris fashion of 1886, dinner dresses with drapped swags and flower arrangements, ball dresses with long gloves and fans and traditional garden party frocks

Views of Golden Lane, London 1872
Views of Golden Lane, near Smithfield Market, in London, 1872

A sketch of a girl as part of the living Christmas pie, American millionaires surpised their guests with, 1923 Date: 1923

Berkleley Hotel Dinner
Dinner at the Berkeley Hotel, London, on a Sunday evening Date: 1914

Hammond Innes, British novelist
Ralph Hammond Innes (1913-1998), British novelist, giving a speech at a dinner

Crokett - Le Jongleur Humoriste
Poster for Crokett - Le Jongleur Humoriste (The Juggler Comedian)

The Army Education Corps centenary dinner a in the banqueting hall at Eltham Palace Date: 1946

Lord Brabazon of Tara and Marshal of the RAF, Lord Tedde?
Lord Brabazon of Tara and Marshal of the RAF, Lord Tedder conversing at the Royal Aeronautical Society?s 80th anniversary dinner at Guildhall, London, on 11 January 1946

Turtle Soup Advertisement
T.K Belliss Real Turtle Soup. Guarenteed to be the product of the Finest Imported Live Turtle

Rich Woman fishes for suitors
Leap Year - A Sure Bait A rich woman sits on the riverbank, loading up her hook with her riches ( LSD - pounds shillings and pence) - a sure bait for the mass of suitors she has already caught

Christmas in Australia, Huntley and Palmers biscuits
Christmas Dinner in Centennial Park, Sydney, Australia given a quintessential British twist with the addition of Huntley and Palmers biscuits. Not sure how well they go with the turkey though

Washington Xmas Dinner
George Washington, at Christmas dinner at his home at Mount Vernon, proposes a toast To all our friends

Ball-room dancing at the Piccadilly Hotel, London
Londons most popular partners, Miss Leonora Hughes and Mr Maurice, giving an exhibition dance during supper at the Piccadilly Hotel

Eccentic Club / 1900
Gentlemen of the club waiting for dinner

Social / Placing Flowers
A dress typical of the close of the 1920s with its low back, flared skirt & uneven hemline dipping to form train- a transitional phase prior to the long skirts of the 30s

Electric Rail Dinner
Still another use for electricity: a miniature railway that brings food from the pantry to the table, removing the need for contact with troublesome servants

Dinner at Simpsons C1905
Dining at fashionable Simpsons restaurant in the Strand : the Gentlemens Dining Room

Dinner, Servants Hall
Dinner in the servants hall of a large household : the butler presides, with housekeeper, ladys maids, housemaids and footmen ranged in order of seniority

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

Goblins spying on witches on a Christmas card
Goblins spying on two witches with a cooking pot on a Christmas card. Date: circa 1890s

The London Scottish Volunteers holding their last meeting at the Hotel Cecil on 31 March 1908

Christmas postcard, Man enjoying a feast Date: 20th century

Christmas postcard, Man having a nightmare about food. Date: 20th century

Christmas postcard, Man confused by a turkey who claims to be a crow. Date: 20th century

"Leaves from Life: a New Series of Studies by Edmund Blampied." Two wealthy couples playing a game of cards at dinner time. Date: 1933

Christmas and New Year Festivities. Children's party on the 30th of December and on New Years Eve, special dinner, concert and dance until 2 a.m. Date: 1922

The 51st Division Dinner Club at Gleneagles Hotel
A Highland Fling - The 51st Division Dinner Club at Gleneagles Hotel Date: 1933

Royal Visit to France - King & Queen leaving Quai D'Orsay
The evening of 20 July 1938 and King George VI and Queen Elizabeth leave the Quai D'Orsay Palace for the British Embassy where they entertained the President and Mme

Term dinner in the Middle Temple Hall, London Inns of Court. Date: 1843

Actors Ernest Trimmingham (1880-1942) (in the role of the Band Leader), Henry Wenman (in the role of Lord Mellingham)

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