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Foreign cattle on board the Batavier 1865Importing cattle on board the Batavier, a London to Rotterdam steamship. Date: 1865
TWO GAME DISHESTwo game dishes: casserole de puree de gibier (above), and chartreuse de perdreaux (below). Date: circa 1890
GALANTINE OF TURKEYGalantine of turkey. Date: circa 1890
POULARDES A LA GODARDPoulardes (hens) a la Godard. Date: circa 1890
FRENCH BUTCHER W / A BULLA French butcher prepares to slaughter a bull while others look on. Date: circa 1760
DEAD CATS IN BUTCHERSA butcher, planning to use cat meat as a cheap alternative, tells a distraught cat owner: No madame, I have no idea where your pet cat can have got to! Date: 1870
Butchers BoyA butchers boy making a delivery. Date: circa 1870
Errand BoyLondon characters: when you go shopping, you dont have to carry your purchases home, the ERRAND BOY does that, like this butchers boy carrying your uncovered Sunday joint. Date: circa 1870
Leadenhall Market 1859Unpacking game and poultry at Leadenhall Market at Christmas time. Date: 1859
Leadenhall Market at Christmas 1884Leadenhall Market at Christmas time, 1884. Date: 1884
SMITHFIELD MARKETHorses and carriages and the general hustle and bustle outside Smithfield meat market. Date: circa 1900
Selling dogs for food 1871Selling dogs for food in front of the horse market during the Paris Commune Date: 1871
Newgate during the week of Christmas 1866Busy Newgate during the week of Christmas. Date: 1866
Monks at DinnerFriday Though they have vowed to eat no meat on Friday, monks are allowed plenty of wine with their Friday meal of fish
CATS MEAT MANThe cats meat man pushes his barrow from door to door in a Victorian English street Date: 1888
Saturday market - CruikshankSaturday marketing - buying meat and vegetables Date: circa 1849
BRONZE AGE BANQUETA Bronze Age banquet with plenty of meat and drink Date: circa 2000 BC
Goose Club at Christmas 1853Goose Clubs in London, sixpence every Saturday evening after wages received for ten or twelve weeks before Christmas for a goose or turkey and a bottle of spirit, to be carried home on Christmas eve
CATS MEAT MAN / PETHERICKThe cats meat man chops up meat on his barrow watched by a hopeful cat and dog. Date: 1870
PICNIC ON ROYAL HUNTA picnic during a royal hunt Date: 1575
Metropolitan Cattle Market, Copenhagen Fields, London 1868Busy live cattle market in Copenhagen Fields. Date: 1868
Metropolitan poultry market 1884Saturday night in the Metropolitan poultry market. Date: 1884
Metropolitan Meat Market19th century engraving of the Metropolitan Meat Market. The market originally covered 30 acres of the site and grounds of Copenhagen House (previously a pleasure resort and tea garden)
The contents of a halal butchers shop in Houmt Souk, Djerba, Tunisia. A beasts head hangs up along with tripe. Sheeps heads and feet lie on a table. Date: 1987
Butchers in street, DublinTwo butchers carry lamb carcasses on their shoulders down a market street in Dublin, Ireland Date: 1990
Halal butcher, KashmirHalal Muslim butcher cuts pieces of meat in his butchers shop in Srinagar, Kashmir. He squats beside his butchers block, holds a large cleaver and looks directly at the camera Date: 1986
In the Kingdom of Flowers - Liebig Blank Menu Card with motif of three flower fairies Date: circa 1899
Menu card, RMS Olympic, White Star Line, WW1Menu card, RMS Olympic, White Star Line, 17 November 1915. At this time the ship was being used to transport troops to Gallipoli. Date: 1915
Page of Victorian adverts for household items 1888Selection page of Victorian household hardware items for everyday use. 1888
Advert for John Gardner & Son, sausage machine 1888Simplex, silent sausage machine and pie-meat cutter, patentees and sole makers, Smithfield Works, Bradford Street, Birminham. 1888
Tacuinum Sanitatis. 14th century. ButcheryTacuinum Sanitatis. 14th century. Medieval handbook of health. Butchery. Miniature. Fol. 77r
Old meat works, illustration by William Heath RobinsonCurious plant in an old meat works, for converting old mutton into spring lamb to meet the seasons demands, illustration by William Heath Robinson. Credit must appear as: Courtesy of Mrs J. C
Butchering an animal at Bacalar, British HondurasBoy scouts watching the butchering of an animal at Bacalar, British Honduras (now Belize), Central America, 24 May 1951. Date: 1951
Female ButcherA woman butcher gutting an animal carcass. Date: early 1930s
Jack Sprat could eat no fat... 19th century
Hamburg workhouse - punishment of inmatesAn illustration of the punishment meted out to idle paupers at the Hamburg workhouse in 1777. Offenders were placed in a large basket suspended by a rope over the dining hall table while the more
Young woman in a kitchen eating a plate of foodA young woman sitting at a kitchen table eating a plate of meat and vegetables. There is a large tin of Saxa Salt in front of her, and a wartime newspaper at the side of her plate. Date: circa 1944
Jimmy Wild by George StuddyA rather stupid Bonzo, the comic canine creation of George Studdy is distracted from stealing a chop by his reflection in a silver, domed platter cover
The Chicago Tinned Meat ScandalDelicacies weighed and packed in Armours Packing-House in Chicago, showing some dubious by-products of a Chicago meat processing factory used for making cheap sausages
Comic pictogram verse on a greetings card. Date: circa 1890s
Pictogram with comic verse on a Christmas cardPictogram (The Times newspaper, a button, a joint of mutton) with comic verse on a Christmas card. Date: circa 1890s
Joint of meat with comic verse on a Christmas cardJoint of meat with comic verse on a Christmas and New Year card. Date: circa 1890s
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Greetings card in the shape of a bone -- A bone for you to pick. Date: circa 1890s
Man trussed up on a Christmas and New Year cardMan trussed up in front of a fire by a joint of meat, two turkeys and a pudding on a Christmas and New Year card -- One Good Turn Deserves Another. Date: circa 1890s
Girl seeing stories in the fire on a Christmas cardGirl seeing stories in the fire on a Christmas and New Year card, with a humanised joint of meat, a pudding, a turkey, geese, bottles and a steaming kettle. Date: circa 1890s
New Year card in the shape of a jar of potted meat, open to reveal a hen sitting in straw. (2 of 2) Date: circa 1890s
The Cook, c. 1570, by Giuseppe ArcimboldoGiuseppe Arcimboldo (1527-1593). Italian painter. The Cook, c. 1570. National Museum. Stockholm. Sweden
