Dough Gallery

Food adulteration, 1845

London improvements': adulteration of food in 1845. Sand is added to sugar, milk is watered down, bone dust and plaster of paris is added to dough and Vitriol is mixed into gin. Date: 1845

© Mary Evans Picture Library

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Cartoon, Tiddy Doll the great French Gingerbread Baker

Cartoon, Tiddy Doll the great French Gingerbread Baker, drawing out a new Batch of Kings, his Man, Hopping Talley [Talleyrand], mixing up the Dough, by James Gillray. A comment on Napoleon's method of appointing new heads of state, mostly from his own family. On the right are models of British politicians such as Fox and Sheridan, seen to be in favour of making peace with the new French republic. Below is an Ash-Hole for broken Gingerbread, with the remains of old monarchies. Date: 1806

© The Sharp Illustration Collection / Mary Evans Picture Library

Illustrations of the Zulu war. Natives in a farmhouse making

From a sketch by ILN special artist, Melton Prior. Zulu natives kneading dough with European children and a woman looking on. One female African is holding a chubby European baby

© Illustrated London News Ltd/Mary Evans

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