Toasting Collection

Fox Hunters toast a day on the hunt at their local
A group of riders and their hounds toast a day at the hunt outside a local pub. Painting by Malcolm Greensmith

Theatre poster, David Garrick (also a silent film)

Mr Micawber makes Punch - David Copperfield, Charles Dickens Date: circa 1910s

Advert / Lawrence / Squire
Personality endorsement of Whitbreads India Pale Ale: Gertrude Lawrence and Ronald Squire

Benjamin Disraeli at a Carlton Club Banquet
Engraving showing members of the Carlton Club toasting Benjamin Disraeli, 1st Earl of Beaconsfield (1804-1881) (seated centre), during a banquet held at the Riding-School, Knightsbridge

Toasting the royal wedding at the Riviera Club, 1923
Revellers at the fashionable Riviera Club by the Thames on Grosvenor Road, London, raise a glass to toast the wedding of the Duke and Duchess of York in April 1923. Date: 1923

Busy Roman Banquet
A busy scene at a Roman banquet

Two Scottish frogs on a New Year card
Two Scottish frogs in tartan on a New Year card in the shape of a tankard with two handles. Date: circa 1890s

Cecil Aldin, The Christmas Dinner at the Inn

Comic postcard - arrival of a new baby
Humorous comic postcard - arrival of a new baby. Mother and Child doing well - Not a word about Father....!! 1909

Studio Leeds Burton Advertisement Studies
A series of four advertisement study photographs from the Studio Leeds Burton, including various portraits of women and a pair of toasting glasses. Date: circa 1939

Toasting Glasses
A photograph used for advertisement purposes, showing two glasses clinking in a toast. Date: circa 1939

Vinolia Company Toothpaste Advertisement
An illustrated advertisement for Vinolia Company Limited, promoting Royal Vinolia toothpaste, which can be seen being used by a young man in the bathroom, toasting his glass of water to Good Health

Noel Coward's Cavalcade was a thirty-year retrospect of England in peace and war. It ran at the Theatre Royal, Drury Lane between October 1931 and September 1932 and had a cast

Moet & Chandon Champagne, with Cardinals and Chef Date: 1911

Comic postcard, Happy diner in restaurant Date: 20th century

Poster, Georgian gentleman with riding crop
Theatre poster, Georgian gentleman with riding crop, toasting someones good health

British Songster - giving a toast
Illustration, British Songster - the man at the head of the table is giving a toast. 18th century

Christmas toast for the evening 1872
Family raising a glass after an older gentleman makes a speech for Christmas. 1872

BUSY ROMAN BANQUET
A busy scene at a Roman banquet Date: ancient

Yo, Ho, Ho & a Bottle of Rum - pirate by A. L. Grace
A ruddy looking pirate holds his rum bottle aloft. Date: 1934

Two robins with drinks on a Christmas card. Date: circa 1900s

Toast with comic verse on a Christmas card
Toast and toasting fork with comic verse on a Christmas card. Date: circa 1890s

Man with a glass of champagne on a cutout Christmas card -- May you of pleasures have a host. Date: circa 1890s

The Toast - Elizabethan men drinking and merrymaking. circa early 17th century

Toasting muffins on the fire
Cosy scene of an Edwardian interior with women enjoying tea and toasted muffins or crumpets, toasted with a toasting fork on a roaring fire. Lovely. Date: 1906

Bystander masthead featuring Old Bill
Masthead design for a post-war edition of the Bystander magazine featuring one of its main stars the cartoon character created by Bruce Bairnsfather

New Year Greetings Card
A humourous photographic New Year Greetings card from Germany, depicting a couple tucking into sparkling red wine having spent a productive few hours making the snowman who stands happily between

Captain Arthur Phillip raising the English flag at Sydney, Australia, marking the foundation of New South Wales of which he becomes the first Governor

Unidentified sculpture of two drinking men - NYC, USA Date: circa 1890

British Tommy using sword as toasting fork
Photograph: British Tommy using sword as toasting fork. Shows a group of mounted soldiers in a ?Hommes 40/ Chevaux 8? railway carriage cooking on a fire in a metal bucket

Medieval king and courtiers on a Christmas card
Medieval king and two courtiers enjoying a celebratory drink on a Christmas card. Date: circa 1890s

Man with a glass of port on a movable Christmas card. Date: circa 1890s

Man with champagne on a movable Christmas card. circa 1890s

New Years Greeting, Chinatown, New York
Two men toasting in occasion of the New Years celebration in Chinatown, New York, 1912. 1912

Caricature of A W Pinero, John Hare and W H Kendal
Caricature of A W Pinero (left, 1855-1934), John Hare (centre, 1844-1921) and William Hunter Kendal (right, 1843-1917), toasting the success of Pineros play, The Squire, at St Jamess Theatre, London

Proposing a Toast
Proposing a toast at a dinner-party Date: 1928

When We Were Twenty-One by H V Esmond
Promotional postcard for When We Were Twenty-One by H. V. Esmond. First produced at the Comedy Theatre, 2nd September 1901. Artist: Albert Morrow. Touring to Theatre Royal, Chatham, 16th March 1903

Christmas is Come 1850
Music sheet called Christmas is Come, from a bound volume A Holiday Book for Christmas and the New Year, words by Albert Smith and music by W.V. Wallace. Date: 1850

Gentlemen toasting round dinner table, c. 1800
A toast round the table, c. 1800 Date: C.1800

Cartoon, Sharing a drink, WW1
Cartoon, a French soldier and a British soldier share a drink of Pinard (cheap wine or plonk), enjoying a break from fighting. Date: 1916

Inter-Allied Fraternisation - British and French in Flanders
WW1 - Inter-Allied Fraternisation - The Friends of Today, not the Foes of Waterloo - British and French soldiers fraternising in Flanders. Date: 1915

That Sword by B Bairnsfather
A cartoon by Bruce Bairnsfather in which the imagined and actual usages of a sword in the First World War are juxtaposed. Date: 1915

Toasting the tank, Christmas 1916
Secondary front cover of The War Illustrated magazine featuring an illustration of British soldiers toasting a tank, comparatively a new-comer into the arean of battle

Polar bears celebrate Peary reaching the North Pole
Dancing Polar Bears raise glasses of champagne and toast Robert Edwin Peary, Sr. (18561920), the American explorer who claimed to have led the first expedition, on April 6th 1909

Womens Royal Air Force -- Dopers Tea
Illustration, Eight Months with the Womens Royal Air Force. Showing women painters and dopers having a tea break, while one toasts a slice of bread at the open door of a hot stove

Four soldiers enjoying beer near Okehampton, Devon
Four soldiers enjoying a glass (or bottle) of beer near Okehampton, Devon. Date: 1940s

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