Cooking Collection (#16)

British army C company cooking, Mesopotamia, WWI, 1918. Mesopotamia, formerly part of the Turkish Ottoman empire, was under British military control from October 1918

Arab cook, Aleppo road, Baghdad, Iraq, 1917-1919

Cook, 1937. Artist: WA & AC Churchman
Cook, 1937. Churchmans Cigarette Series, The Navy At Work

A ships galley, 1937. Cigarette card from The Navy series, produced by Senior Service Cigarettes, 1937

A study in Sanguine, 1913. Artist: Jean-Antoine Watteau
A study in Sanguine, 1913. A print from The Art of the Great Masters, by Frederic Lees, Sampson Low, Marston and Co, London, 1913

An Irish banquet, 1581, (1893). From The Image of Irelande by John Derrick, 1581. An illustration from A Short History of the English People, by John Richard Green, illustrated edition, Volume II

The White House kitchen, Washington DC, USA, 1908. Illustration from The Story of the White House, by Esther Singleton, Volume II, (Hodder and Stoughton, London, 1908)

Woman preparing cakes for the Chinese New Year, 1861. From the Illustrated News, 1861

Lacustre women, c1870-1950. Artist: Ferdinand Sigismund Bac
Lacustre women, c1870-1950

Making jelly in Czinkota, Hungary, 1922. Artist: AW Cutler
Making jelly in Czinkota, Hungary, 1922. From Peoples of All Nations, Their Life Today and the Story of Their Past, volume IV: Georgia to Italy

The cook, 16th century (1849). Artist: Jost Amman
The cook, 16th century (1849). A 19th century version of an original 16th century engraving. From Le Moyen Age et la Renaissance, by Paul Lacroix, Ferdinand Sere and A Rivaud, Volume I (Paris, 1849)

Windsor Castle kitchen at Christmas, 1894. Artist: William Simpson
Windsor Castle kitchen at Christmas, 1894. From the Illustrated London News (22 December 1894)

Tom and Jerry, catching Kate and Sue on the fly, having their fortunes told, 19th century. Kate and Sue having their fortunes read in the cards (Cartomancy) by an old woman

Oliver Twist, c1838. Artist: George Cruikshank
Oliver Twist, c1838. Oliver introduced to the respectable old gentleman. Fagin (cooking sausages) and the Artful Dodger welcome Oliver to their den of pickpockets

Letter from Charles Lamb to John Clare, 31st August 1822. Artist: Charles Lamb
Letter from Charles Lamb to John Clare, 31st August 1822. Letter written from India House by Lamb to John Clare the peasant-poet

Matron and servant in the sick-chamber, c1470, (1910). Tobit, blind in bed, is attended by two women. One of the women sits by the fire where a cooking pot hangs on an adjustable ratchet

A Rural Kitchen in the Tierras Calientes, Mexico, 1877. Mexican women making corn tortillas. On the left is a grindstone used to make the maize flour

A Woman and a Fish-pedlar in a Kitchen, 1713. Artist: Mieris, Willem van (1662-1747)
A Woman and a Fish-pedlar in a Kitchen, 1713. Found in the collection of the National Gallery, London

A Woman scraping Parsnips, with a Child standing by her, 1655. Artist: Maes, Nicolaes (1634-1693)
A Woman scraping Parsnips, with a Child standing by her, 1655. Found in the collection of the National Gallery, London

Interior with a Woman eating Porridge. Artist: Dou, Gerard (Gerrit) (1613-1675)
Interior with a Woman eating Porridge. From a private collection

The Kitchen, 17th century. Found in the collection of the M Kroshitsky Art Museum, Sevastopol, Ukraine

Production of mineral water cake, Yessentuki, Russia, 1900s. Situated in the northern Caucasus, Yessentuki has been a popular spa resort since the 19th century due to the properties of the mineral

Making jam in the courtyard of Leo Tolstoys house, Yasnaya Polyana, near Tula, Russia, 1900. Artist: Sophia Tolstaya
Making jam in the courtyard of Leo Tolstoys house, Yasnaya Polyana, near Tula, Russia, 1900. Found in the collection of the State Museum of Tolstoys Estate at Yasnaya Polyana

A Cook, Dutch painting of 18th century. Artist: Louis de Moni
A Cook, Dutch painting of 18th century. Moni, Louis, de (1698-1771). Found in the collection of the State M. Ciurlionis Art Museum, Kaunas

Women and a Boy by Brazier (Hibachi), 1816. Artist: Hokusai
Women and a Boy by Brazier (Hibachi), 1816. Hokusai, Katsushika (1760-1849). Found in the collection of the State A. Pushkin Museum of Fine Arts, Moscow

The Widows House (Second Trick), 1865. Artist: Wilhelm Busch
The Widows House (Second Trick), 1865. From Max and Moritz (A Story of Seven Boyish Pranks) by Wilhelm Busch

The passengers and equipment of Admiral Gueydon shipwrecked on the African coast, 1903. An illustration from Le Petit Journal, 11th October 1903

Mutiny at the Russian pavillion for the Exposition Universelle, 1900, (1899). Artist: Oswaldo Tofani
Mutiny at the Russian pavillion for the Exposition Universelle, 1900, (1899). An illustration from Le Petit Journal, 6th August 1899

The rag and bone man of Paris, 1892. Artist: Henri Meyer
The rag and bone man of Paris, 1892. A print from the Le Petit Journal, 27th August 1892

The Army Cook and the Bourgeois, c1824-1866. Artist: Paul Gavarni
The Army Cook and the Bourgeois, c1824-1866

Tobit, c1470, (1843). Artist: Henry Shaw
Tobit, c1470, (1843). Tobit, blind and sick, has just dispatched his son Tobias to the city of Rages. The woman cooking is his wife Anna. She is using a jack to hang the pot over the fire

Confectioners, moulds, 1751-1777. A print from the Encyclopedie, ou Dictionnaire Raisonne des Sciences, des Arts et des Metiers by Diderot & d Alembert, 1751-1777. Private Collection

Confectioners, oven, 1751-1777. A print from the Encyclopedie, ou Dictionnaire Raisonne des Sciences, des Arts et des Metiers by Diderot & d Alembert, 1751-1777. Private Collection

Confectioners, 1751-1777. A print from the Encyclopedie, ou Dictionnaire Raisonne des Sciences, des Arts et des Metiers by Diderot & d Alembert, 1751-1777. Private Collection

Roman thermopodium, 3rd Century AD. Artist: A Lorenzini
Roman thermopodium, 3rd Century AD. A thermopodium was a form of Roman stove

Making Macaroni and Military Meeting, 1802. Artist: Vivant Denon
Making Macaroni and Military Meeting, 1802. Two plates from Voyage dans la Basse et la Haute d Egypte, 1802

Front cover of Le Pays de France, 23rd December 1915

Peasant House, Russia, 1821. Artist: AC Houbigaot
Peasant House, Russia, 1821. Life and costumes of the Russian people. Found in the collection of the Bibliotheque Nationale de France, Paris

The Marchand expedition: resting at Bahr-el-Gazal, Sudan, June 1897. In 1896-1898 Jean-Baptiste Marchand (1863-1934), a French army officer

Distribution of Soup at the Front, 1915. A print from Le Pays de France, 23 September 1915

A German army field kitchen in a French village, World War I, 1915. A photograph from Der Grosse Krieg in Bildern

Cook, 1799. Artist: Thomas Rowlandson
Cook, 1799. From the collection of the National Maritime Museum, London

A Woman and a Maid in a Courtyard, c1660-1661. Artist: Pieter de Hooch
A Woman and a Maid in a Courtyard, c1660-1661. Found in the collection of the National Gallery, London

Still Life with Eggs, 20th Century. Artist: Antoine Vollon
Still Life with Eggs, 20th Century. Private Collection

Value and Humanity, 19th century

Rest at Bahr-el-Ghazal, June 1897. Scene during a trade mission in Africa in the period of European colonisation. A European and his African porters break their journey

Le Garde Nationale aux Remparts, 1870-1871. Cartoon depicting a scene during the Prussian Siege of Paris in the Franco-Prussian War (1870-1871)

The Cook, c1570. Artist: Giuseppe Arcimboldi
The Cook, c1570. This image can be interpreted in two ways, either as a cook taking the lid off a dish of sucking pigs or, if turned upside down, as the head of the cook. From a private collection

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