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Cover design, Cecil Aldin, Joyeux Amis, PassepartoutCover design, Cecil Aldin, Joyeux Amis, Les Aventures de Passepartout, with text by Magdeleine du Genestoux. Date: 1925
Puppies eating from a large bowlPuppies eating eagerly from a large bowl -- Hard At It. Date: 1893
Hungry Peter the pig drinking a toast in the soup, as everyone at the dinner party is teetotal! Date: 1914
Hungry Peter the pig putting sugar in the soupHungry Peter the pig accidentally putting castor sugar in the soup instead of pepper. Date: 1914
Illustration, A Song of the English, The SeaIllustration to A Song of the English, a patriotic set of poems by Rudyard Kipling (first published in the English Illustrated Magazine)
Man feeding sparrow in a Balham park, SW LondonMan feeding bread to a sparrow in a Balham park, SW London. Date: circa 1960s
WW1 - Eastern Front - Dinner for Austrian soldiers deliveredWW1 - Eastern Front - Austrian soldiers crawl to deliver rations to soldiers in shallow trenches whilst under Russian shell-fire. Date: 1915
Cartoon, German soldier dreaming, WWICartoon, the Boches dream. A hungry German soldier dreams of beer and sausages while asleep in the snow on the Western Front during WW1. Date: 1915
Boys eating fish and chips, Balham, SW LondonThree boys eating fish and chips out of newspaper on a Balham street, SW London. Date: circa 1961
Northern Red-backed Vole - emerges from a hide in wood-store (Myodes rutilus Pallas). Wildlife reserve Denezhkin Kamen - North Ural Mountains - Russia
Temptation, by BairnsfatherTemptation A cartoon in The Bystander by Captain Bruce Bairnsfather. A hungry German imagines a dachshund turning into a sausage. Date: 1918
Dutch boy scout eating at camp, HollandA Dutch boy scout eating at camp, Holland
Food shortages, WW1London society finds that the only topic of conversation in 1918 is food, rationing and what there is available to eat. An illustration by Annie Fish to accompany the Letters of Eve gossip column in
Forager the puppy joins the other animals by the fireThe Limit -- Forager the puppy joins Master Quack the duckling, Humpty and Dumpty the twin rabbits, Rags the puppy, Rufus the cat and Hungry Peter the piglet by the fire. Date: 1912
Forager the puppy waiting for more foodWaiting for Something to Turn Up -- Forager the puppy, having been kicked out of the pantry by the cook, waits for more food. Date: 1912
The duckling joins the other animals by the fireStill They Come -- Master Quack the duckling joins Humpty and Dumpty the twin rabbits, Rags the puppy, Rufus the cat and Hungry Peter the piglet by the fire. Date: 1912
Forager the puppy follows the smell of foodIn Full Cry -- Forager the puppy follows the smell of Irish stew, onions and potatoes, feeling very hungry. Date: 1912
The rabbits join the other animals by the fireA Growing Family -- Humpty and Dumpty the twin rabbits join Rags the puppy, Rufus the cat and Hungry Peter the piglet by the fire. Date: 1912
Rags the puppy joins cat and piglet by the fireA Cosy Corner -- Rags the puppy joins Rufus the cat and Hungry Peter the piglet by the fire. Date: 1912
Humpty and Dumpty the rabbits eating a cabbageThe Bitter End -- Humpty and Dumpty the twin rabbits eat a whole cabbage. Date: 1912
Rags the puppy in the dairyHow I Wonder What You Are! -- Rags the puppy looks for food in the dairy. Date: 1912
Rufus the cat drinks from a bowl, watched by a dogDog Days -- Rufus the cat drinks milk from a bowl, watched by a hungry dog. Date: 1912
Hungry Peter as a piglet makes friends with a dogThe Best of Friends -- Hungry Peter as a piglet makes friends with a dog in the farmyard. Date: 1912
Hungry Peter as a piglet stealing poultry foodFirst Come, First Served -- Hungry Peter as a piglet unwittingly stealing the food from the cock and hens, who peck at him and drive him away. Date: 1912
Hungry Peter as a piglet looking for foodThe Outcast -- Hungry Peter as a piglet wanders away from the farm looking for more substantial food. Date: 1912
Hungry Peter as a growing piglet drinking from a bowlIn Clover -- Hungry Peter the pig as a growing piglet, drinking milk from a bowl with a blue ribbon tied round his neck. Date: 1912
Hungry Peter the pig, as a young pigletHelping Hands -- Hungry Peter the pig, as a young piglet, being fed by the farmer and his wife. Date: 1912
All the animals at the fancy dress ballAll of the animals at Humpty and Dumptys fancy dress ball -- Tabitha the cat as Red Riding Hood, Forager the dog in hunting costume, Hungry Peter the pig as the Fat Boy in Pickwick
Hungry Peter dressed as Fat Boy in PickwickHungry Peter the pig dressed as the Fat Boy in Charles Dickens Pickwick Papers, ready for Humpty and Dumptys fancy dress ball. Date: 1914
Hungry Peter the pig dresses for his party in front of a full-length mirror. Date: 1914
Hungry Peter the pig plans for a partyHungry Peter the pig prepares for a party by planning an elaborate menu. Date: 1914
Tea party at Tabithas house, showing Tabitha the cat and two rabbits (Humpty and Dumpty) at the table, with Hungry Peter the pig asleep on the left
Hungry Peter the pig arrives at Tabithas for teaHungry Peter the pig arrives at Tabitha the cats for tea, wearing his best clothes and very eager for food. Date: 1914
A Kievsky Station Food Stall, MoscowCheap dinners on sail at a food stall outside Kievsky Station in Moscow. Date: 1919
Hungry Gipsy BoyA hungry gipsy boy, sulking, hands in pockets, as he waits impatiently for his supper to boil in a cauldron on the campfire. Date: 1973
Hungry Gipsy GirlA hungry gipsy tomboy, waiting for her supper beside a campfire cauldron. Date: 1973
Sailors SnackHungry sailors tuck into a plate of chicken wings served through a porthole! Date: early 1930s
Birds LunchtimeNo, this woman is not stroking a yucca plant, she is actually feeding some hungry birds in the Embankment Gardens, central London! Date: 1930s
LA Salle as BenefactorJEAN-BAPTISTE DE LA SALLE French churchman, educator and benefactor, founder of the Freres Chretiens, hands out food to the hungry during the famines of 1693 and 1709. Date: 1651 - 1719
WW2 era - Comic Postcard - Inside Information" This is a time for everyone to stand together and hold firm." - Winston Churchill, The Prime Minister. Inside Information - a little girl out shopping for fish is slightly disappointed to
Little girl asking permission to start eating Date: circa 1911
Young waif posing for an artist has no knowledge of lunchA Fact (mores the pity) Artist - " Oh, by the way, have you had your lunch?" Little Waif (posing for the first time) - " Whats that?" Date: 1895
Illustration for a Menu by Willette for Restaurant Tabarin, Monmartre, Paris, France. A host of hungry cherubim await delivery of the dish of the day, a luxuriant naked female
WWI - The (German) Fox and the (Allied) GrapesThe Fox and the Grapes - A Hungry Fox, finding that he could not reach some tempting bunches of ripe grapes, declared that they were sour and that he did not want them
Three cats impatient for their fish supperThree furry moggies wait (im)patiently for their Fish Suppers... " Hurry Up Waiter!" Date: 1907
Mustela erminea, ermine and Oryctolagus cuniculus, EuropeanStoats attacking rabbit. Plate from a collection of pencil sketches and watercolour drawings of British mammals c. 1890-1910 by Edward Adrian Wilson (1872-1912)
Caiman crocodilus, spectacled caimanClose-up photograph of a spectacled caiman (Caiman crocodilus) specimen from the collections of the Natural History Museum, London
Snake and rodent by Albertus SebaTab 29 depicting a snake and a rodent from Thesaurus, by Albertus Seba