Glutton Collection

Humanised elephant in the role of a bon viveur
A humanised elephant, wearing waistcoat, trousers and tailcoat, cast in the role of a bon viveur, with corks popping out of wine bottles behind him

Honey badger, Mellivora capensis, and grison or South American glutton, Galictis cuja.. Handcolored copperplate stipple engraving from Frederic Cuviers Dictionary of Natural Science: Mammals, Paris

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

Pregnant nun Sister Jean sitting in her convent cell, her habit open to reveal her breasts. A picture of Saint Martha on the wall. Soeur Jeanne

Historical views of Siberia. Samoyed man outside a pit-house 16, discovery of an extinct mammoth skeleton 17, and Russian man exiled to the frozen wastes 18

King George IVs royal parade through Dublin, 1821
King George IV of England riding a carriage in a royal parade through Dublin, 1821. Accompanied by Irish gentlemen, lancers, soldiers, bishops and aldermen. Going to the Levee

Skeleton of death aiming a dart at bareknuckle boxers during a fight. Death and the Pugilists. Handcoloured copperplate engraving by Joshua Gleadah after an illustration by Benedictus Antonio Van

A man offers his friend his beautiful slavegirl. Two friends watch a woman sleeping in a four-poster bed. Les deux amis. After Athenaeus

Man and woman in a restaurant with a glutton, 19th century
Man and woman in a restaurant with a glutton. He says, But you don t eat? He thinks, He inhales! Handcoloured lithograph by the Gihaut brothers after an illustration by Swiss artist Jean Gabriel

Wolverines, skunk and stink badger
Wolverine, Gulo gulo (Gulo arcticus) 1, Mexico wolverine (Gulo barbara) 2, striped skunk, Mephitis mephitis 3, and Sunda stink badger, Mydaus javanensis 4

Masked palm civet or gem-faced civet, Paguma larvata (Masked glutton, Gulo larvatus). Handcoloured copperplate engraving by Bradley after an illustration by Charles Hamilton Smith from a specimen in

Illustration, Strawberries and cream. first published 1838

Merry Christmas! 1847
" Heaven Bless you Merry Gentlefolks let Nothing You Dismay, " Page of Victorian men and women getting into the Christmas spirit! Indulging themselves in food, drink and dance. 1847

GLUTTON / BENJAMIN MARRIOT
Benjamin Marriot, a Prodigious Eater

Greek Anti-British Propaganda Postcard - this translates as: " Greek Soldiers - this is whom you are fighting!" The British forces are characterised as a fat John Bull

Eating Well (Roubille)
Fat man eating a good meal. - After a good tuck-in, life doesn t seem so bad, after all

Caricature of a gluttonous monk. circa 1820

Cruikshank / Indigestion
An early 19th century gentlemans self-contained room. It includes a hob grate, letter rack, wash stand, curtained off bed, pelmet & curtains, table, rug & fender

French Theatre -- La Condamnacion de Bancquet
La Condamnacion de Bancquet, a morality play against gluttony attributed to Nicolas (or Nicole) de la Chesnaye. Showing a plump man with a flask of red wine, a chicken on a spit

Wolverene or glutton, Gulo gulo.. Handcolored copperplate engraving from The Naturalists Pocket Magazine; or, Complete Cabinet of the Curiosities and Beauties of Nature (1798-1802)

Cartoon, German man eating, WW1
Cartoon, a fat German man eating a plate of pork and cabbage. Date: 1915

I really like Veals head
A little girl expresses her like for this particular French culinary delicacy - Veals head! Date: 1905

Greek Anti-Plutocrat Propaganda Postcard
An anti Plutocrat Greek postcard from the Second World War, praising the austere simple pride in the life of a Greek soldier against the extravagant largesse of the Plutocrat

Origin Species, CH Bennett, Fat man - pig
Piggish. Satire on Darwins Origin of Species showing the evolution of a man who eats too much, from a pig. This old glutton, fond of good eating is a natural descendant of the pig

Late for Dinner C1830
Better late than never! A dinner guest arrives late, and needs to hurry if he is going to eat at all

Food and Drink / Gluttony
A glutton in a jesters hat tucks into a variety of foods, while a wild pig cleans up the scraps

Studying Paris Menu 1874
A rather portly customer studies the menu in a Paris restaurant

Leopards and Wolfs Zoo
Regents Park zoo, London Visitors admire leopards and other cats, wolf and glutton

Wolverine / Glutton
Also known to Americans as a CARCAJOU. Mustela gudo. Buffon calls it a glutton

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