Feast Collection (page 6)

An Elizabethan Banquet by Pauline Baynes
A detailed scene showing an Elizabeth banquet with entertainers in costume playing music and dancing while servants bring in platters of elaborate pies and dressed roast meats

Eglinton Tournament 9
The ball : after the fighting, the flirting - the Earls 2000 guests feast and dance in the ballroom constructed specially for the occasion. Date: 30 August 1839

Malta / Valletta Feast
Governors Palace, Valletta: feast for children on the occasion of Victorias Diamond Jubilee Date: 1897

P. Pan / Fairy Banquet
A fairy banquet in Kensington Gardens. Date: First published: 1904

Sharks Eat Parachutist
Sharks enjoy a feast when the Australian parachutist, Lieut. Guiller, is carried out to sea by air currents. Date: 1928

Banquet aboard H. M.s Wellington
Entertainment to Admiral Dundas, on board H.M.S Wellington of the Baltic Fleet

Floras Feast / Walter Crane
A series of flowers personified, awaken from their winter sleep by the heat of the sun

Banquet in the Imperial Pavilion
The banquet hosted by the Duke of Devonshire as part of his fete celebrations at Chiswick House

Wedding Feast / Party - Central Africa
French Mission of Saint-Esprit in French Central Africa - a wedding party

Good Cheer by Ethel Parkinson
Good Cheer -- four children dressed in medieval costume bring in the Christmas feast, consisting of a large turkey, glasses of steaming punch, a large round pudding, and a plate of fruit

An 18th Century Kitchen by Pauline Baynes
A galaxy of eighteenth century food and a kitchen scene showing food preparation. From the top is a Stargazey pie, then a baked ham stuffed with apricots, fried apple pasties

Preparing the Christmas Feast by Pauline Baynes
A kitchen scene from the early 17th century along with examples of dishes eaten at Christmas during this period. These include a bowl of lemon mincemeat, a beef and samphire hash, scorched chestnuts

Fijian Feast (Giant Turtles)
Giant Turtles captured for eating in a grand feast on Fiji. The turtles have been rolled onto their backs (possibly so they don t escape...)

Bosnia & Herzegovina - Barbequing Lamb for a large feast

Moslem Zeal in Jerusalem
A sword brandishing orator in a procession near Jerusalem, during the Nebi Musa Feast celebrations which coincided with Christian Easter festivities

The Feast of Roses in Regents Park, London, 1889
The Feast of Roses parade in the Royal Botanic Societys Gardens, Regents Park, in 1889

Crumbs from the rich mans table, Guildhall, London by S. B

Marriage of Farouk I of Egypt & Farida
Farouk I of Egypt (1920 - 1965), was the tenth ruler from the Muhammad Ali Dynasty and the penultimate King of Egypt and Sudan, succeeding his father, Fuad I, in 1936

Poor Children Feasted
An alfresco feast for poor children is staged in the Tuileries Gardens, Paris

Lapithes V Centaurs
A people of Thessaly, they won renown by overcoming the centaurs at the marriage feast of Briseis

Peruvians Sacrifice Lamb
Peruvians sacrifice a black lamb at the great Feast of the Sun

Peruvians Honour the Sun
Peruvians feast in honour of the Sun, an occasion on which a number of animals lose their lives

French Harvest Festival
In the Touraine, the end of the harvest is the occasion for celebration - a feast for the farmworkers and a ball in the village square

Feast of Tabernacles
The Feast of the Tabernacles in ancient Palestine

Triton's spear - Crane - Kniphofia
That, reddening on the Triton's spear, foretells the waning of the year. (The flower resembles Kniphofia or Red-hot Poker')

Ladies into Bats
Alcithoe and other daughters of Mineus refuse to celebrate the feast of Dionysos, working instead, for which they are changed into bats

Garde Du Corps Banquet
In the theatre at Versailles, with Louis and Marie present, officers of the garde du corps (royal bodyguard) hold a feast where they trample the revolutionary tricouleur

Arthur & Green Knight
The Green Knight, on his green horse, surprises Arthur and Guinevere at a feast. He later challenged the Knights to a fight and Gawain, who volunteered, was victorious

Crane, Floras Feast
FLORAs FEAST: A MASQUE OF FLOWERS Title page featuring a pipe-playing figure

Austrian Wedding Feast
An Austrian wedding feast - the bride crosses the table, symbolising the rite of passage from spinsterhood to the married state

Robin Hood, Merry Feast
Robin Hood and his merry men feast, with Maid Marian to grace their table

George IV Weds Caroline
George, prince of Wales, weds Caroline of Brunswick; the nuptials are celebrated with an alfresco feast at Frogmore

Swedish Students Feast
Students of Upsala University dress up for their Majfest [May Festival]

Rite of Simcha Tora in Judaism
The Jewish rite of Simcha Tora or rejoicing the law (opening and closing of the lessons of the law) on the last day of the Feast of Tabernacles

The Weddingfeast Parable
THE WEDDING FEAST The guest who arrived without a wedding garment

Jesus at Cana Marriage
When the wine runs out at a wedding-feast at Cana, he changes water into wine that is better than the first

Breton Wedding Feast
A rustic wedding feast, Brittany

Russian Wedding Feast
The village priest officiates at the wedding feast : evidently the matter is one to be taken seriously, judging by the solemn faces

Pentecost, the Spirit
At the Feast of Pentecost, the Holy Spirit descends on the Apostles

Syntax / Outdoor / Reception
Miss Worthys Marriage: Dr Syntax in the Chair

Ogers Feast

Neolithic Feast / Figuier
A neolithic (Stone Age) feast

Henry Vi / Part I
Act II, Scene III (Part I) Talbot & the Countess of Auvergne; " With all my heart, & think me honoured/To feast so great a warrior..."

Scandinavian New Year
ANCIENT SCANDINAVIA For the Scandinavians, any special occasion is an excuse for drinking, and the New Year - the Feast of Jul (Yule) is no exception

Hebrew New Year
ANCIENT HEBREWS New Years day is the Feast of the Trumpets, which herald the start of another year with the customary sacrifices of slaughtered animals

Carthaginian New Year
ANCIENT CARTHAGE The new year is celebrated with the Feast of Melkarth, when sacrifices are carried out to an accompaniment of music

Roman Satyricon Feast
The absurdly extravagant feast given by the Roman parvenu Trimalchio, in the Satyricon of Petronius

French Fete Des Fous
La Fete des fous et des Diacres - the FEAST OF FOOLS, on December 26-28, when the mass is burlesqued and all indulge in obscene dancing and singing in the churches

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