Meal Collection

Pea Apparatus by William Heath Robinson
An interesting and elegant apparatus designed to overcome once for all the difficulties of conveying green peas to the mouth

The first Thanksgiving 1621. Pilgrims and Natives gather to share meal. Date c1932

The Peasants Wedding, 1568. Bruegel, Pieter, The Elder (1525-1569). Oil on oakwood, 114 x 164 cm

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

Old Reading Abbey Whisky
Old Reading Abbey, Scotch and Irish Whisky advert with monks drinking with their meal 1900s

Breakfast by Muriel Dawson
A jolly little girl with brown hair and eyes sips from a mug decorated with a painting of a cockerel

Britains New Navy in Training - HMS Raleigh. circa 1930s

Christmas Day in the Workhouse
Illustration and opening verses of In the Workhouse: Christmas Day - better known as Christmas Day in the Workhouse, written by George R Sims in 1877

Sunday Roast
A mouth-watering Sunday roast meal - a joint of roast beef, served with roast potatoes and Yorkshire pudding

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

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

The Cellar Quartetto: Dr Syntax and companions in the wine cellar

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

Lin-Can advertisement, 1953
Advertisement for Lin-Can tinned fruits and vegetables manufactured by Lincolnshire Canners of Boston, Lincolnshire

Three people at a table, photographer reflected in mirror
Three people at a table with a roast dinner and wine bottles, possibly for Thanksgiving, North America. The photographer and camera on a tripod are reflected in the mirror behind them

Cold Comfort by W. Heath Robinson
An elegant device now in use in many seaside boarding houses to obviate the rather indelicate act of blowing on ones food to cool it

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

Advertisement for Spratts meat fibrine dog foods, showing six expectant dogs awaiting their dinner. Date: c.1924

Twelfth Night, Act II Scene iv, by William Heath Robinson
Scene from the Shakespeare comedy, Twelfth Night, Act II Scene iv, illustration by William Heath Robinson. Showing a banquet at Orsinos house, with the clown Feste singing a sad love song

Good Egg by William Heath Robinson
Straight from the Hen! The Fresh-Egger, a handsome apparatus for ensuring the new-laidness of eggs for the breakfast-table. A typically convoluted invention from the mind of William Heath Robinson

St Olave Union Workhouse, Ladywell, South London - Dining Ha
The festively decorated dining-hall at the St Olave Union Workhouse, Ladywell, South London - presumably a special occasion such as Christmas or a royal celebration

Japanese Woman Cooking
A young Japanese housewife cooking the family meal in her well-equipped kitchen. Chopsticks will be used for eating and the rice will be served in wooden cases. Date: 1930s

Dog and Two Children
A little black dog sits patiently while a boy and a girl hand him nice things to eat from the table

Still Life with Peaches and Pears Date: 1890

Coach party having lunch in a pub
A coach party stops for lunch in a pub. circa 1950s

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

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

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

Somebodys Cup of Tea by David Wright An elegant woman takes her breakfast in bed

A lass and a lack
A panicked and sweating gentleman reaching for his wallet as he is shown a restaurant bill by a waiter. His female companion lights a cigarette and looks on nervously

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

Food Served on a Flight
An Airline Steward and Air Hostess serve a roast meal to flight passengers

The River Danube
Gulls look for their evening meal over the glistening River Danube at Budapest, Hungary at the end of a fine spring day

Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs
Snow White makes herself useful in the home of the Seven Dwarfs

King James I feasting with Spanish ambassadors
King James I of England (and VI of Scotland) feasting with Spanish ambassadors

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

Apprentice Hotpot
A group of hungry apprentices get ready to tuck into a hotpot at a aeronautical school. Date: 1930s

Eating with Chopsticks
Japanese politicians enjoying a meal using chopsticks, in the canteen of the new parliamentary buildings in Tokyo

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

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

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

Christmas postcard, children with cracker - Pull! Date: circa 1930s

Comic postcard, Man eating meal in coal cellar - I'm practising living in a dug-out! A Derby Scheme armband on his jacket shows that he is signed up and ready for active service. Date: circa 1915

German soldiers having a meal at Termonde, Belgium, WW1
German soldiers having a meal at Termonde (Dendermonde), Belgium, 19 September 1914, at the start of the First World War Date: 1914

Africa - Women Pounding grain
Africa - Women pounding grain, millet corn or cassava roots as the first step in the preparation of a meal. Date: circa 1970s

Scenes from South Africa - wagon pulled by a team of Oxen, local people and horses, a stagecoach and a Boer Camp taking their evening meal Date: circa 1906

Interior of Italian Kitchen. Cooks preparing a feast. Facsimile of a woodcut from the cookbook of Cristoforo di Messisbugo, Banchetti compositioni di Vivende, published in Ferrara, 1549

Table service of a Lady of Quality. 19th-century
Table service of a Lady of Quality. Chromolithography from a miniature of the Roman de Renaud de Montauban, 15th century manuscript

Chinese peasant children eating a meal, 18th century. They cook on a iron pan over a clay stove, and eat bowls of rice with chopsticks. Enfans prenant leur repas

Chinese trackers eating rice with chopsticks, 18th century. Trackers towed junks and boats on rivers and wore boards on their chests to protect from rope burn

16th century French expedition. Florida. Seminoles Indians
United States of America. 16th century French expedition. Florida. Seminoles Indians. Food and meal preparation. Jacques Le Moyne de Morgues (1533-1588) made the illustrations during the expedition

16th century French expedition. Florida. Seminoles Indians
United States of America. 16th century French expedition. Florida. Seminoles Indians. Food and meal preparation. Jacques Le Moyne de Morgues (1533-1588) made the illustrations during the expedition

New Testament. Jesus at the Pharisee's house. Engraving after a painting by W. Lawson. La Ilustracion Espanola y Americana, 1882

Cecil Aldin, The Christmas Dinner at the Inn

Futuristic dinner party
A futuristic chemical dinner party -- a few tablets are served for each guest. Just think -- no washing up! Date: 1899

Machnow eating breakfast at the London Hippodrome
Feodor Machnow, the Russian giant, pictured next to his manager and (possibly) members of the staff at the London Hippodrome, eating breakfast during his time performing there

Outbreak of WWII men of Royal Artillery eating 1939
Men of a battalion of the Royal Artillery have a meal beside of the guns, during training. Date: 1939

Japanese people sitting on the floor eating their meal using small bowls and chopsticks. Date: 1864

Loaf of Bread Date: 1950

Soldiers in mess hall of army barracks, South Africa. Date: circa 1900

WWII - the man who eats grass, Mr J. R. B. Branson
Mr J. R. B. Branson, who advocated a diet of grass to counter food shortages during the Second World War

Luncheon in the streets of Cairo, Egypt Date: 1898

A family eating, China, early 1900s

WW2 Christmas Card, The Toast Is Freedom
A WW2 Christmas greetings card with an illustration titled The Toast Is Freedom. The image shows servicemen of Britain's armed forces and home defence enjoying a Christmas meal. Date: 1944

Russia - Tsar Nicholas II aboard L'Etendard, in Finland
Tsar Nicholas II, aboard L'Etendard, in the Fjords, Finland, tasting the sailors food. Date: circa 1910

R. A. F. Servicemen And Women
These illustrations portray British Royal Air Force servicemen and women in various scenes, including enjoying a meal and receiving reports and orders. Date: 1941

WW2 Rest Centre
An illustration which shows some figures having drinks and a meal at a WW2 rest centre, who do admirable restorative work for the temporarily homeless. Date: circa 1941

Iraqi Minister of Development Mohammad Ghussein & colleagues
The Iraqi Minister of Development Mohammad Ghussein, colleagues and their spouses at the Department of Development - Baghdad, Iraq. Date: circa 1950s

F Stanley Parker
Caricature of F Stanley Parker, by Philippe Ledoux Date: circa 1930

Deux Amis
A group portrait sketch of two friends, after having enjoyed a light meal, one has his arm over the other's shoulder as he picks his teeth. Date: circa 1901

Chinese workmen at tiffin (a light afternoon snack) - Society for the Propagation of the Gospel in Foreign Parts Date: circa 1910

Dinner at Trafalgar Tavern, Greenwich, SE London
Dinner down the River Thames, at the Trafalgar Tavern, Greenwich, SE London - Date: 1862

Turkey. Constantinople. Dinner for a European ambassador
Turkey. Constantinople (Today Istanbul). Dinner for a European ambassador at the Grand Vizier's court, in the imperial Council chamber, around year 1788

White Star Line, RMS Olympic - breakfast menu
White Star Line, RMS Olympic - First Class breakfast menu, 4 October 1920. Date: 1920

RMS Olympic - dinner menu, abstract of log cards
RMS Olympic - Second Class dinner fold over menu, dated 20 August 1920; two abstract of log cards dated 1920 and 1932. Date: 1920-1932

Girl being served supper Date: 1925

Turkey. Constantinople. Iftar or dinner of Grand Vizier
Ottoman Empire. Turkey. Constantinople (today Istanbul). Topkapi Palace. Iftar or dinner of Grand Vizier and ministers on the third night of Ramadan. Engraving by Lemaitre, Lalaisse and Chaillot

Segismundo Moret y Prendergast (1838-1913). Politician
Segismundo Moret y Prendergast (1838-1913). Spanish politician. Spain, Madrid. Banquet of the Partido Democratico-Monarquico in the Theater of La Alhambra, November 14, 1881

Dog begging for meal - 1950s printer's block Date: 1950s

Farewell Dinner Menu, Cunard liner RMS Mauretania
Farewell Dinner Menu, 31 July 1953, Cunard liner RMS Mauretania Date: 1953

Dinner Menu, Cunard liner, RMS Mauretania
Dinner Menu, Cunard liner RMS Mauretania, 30 July 1953 - at this time the ship was operating between Southampton and New York. Date: 1953

Lady Nightcap at Breakfast, comical Georgian scene, black servant serving his employer. Date: 1772

Hudson's Oat Meal Stout

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