Dining Room Collection (page 9)

Watts First Experiment, 18th century, (c1870). Artist: Herbert Bourne
Watts First Experiment, 18th century, (c1870). James Watt (1736-1819) Scottish engineer, as a boy experimenting with the tea-kettle at the dining table of his childhood home at Greenock

Communication by speaking tube, c1850. A waiter serving clients in a restaurant, speaking to chefs at work in the kitchen on the floor below, using a speaking tube

Ha, Ha! You Must Learn to Love Me, 1873. Cartoon from Punch London 1873, telling the British public that they must learn to love canned meat from Australia

The Flower of the Flock, c1890. An artisan country family at the tea table showing loving, hopeless concern for a child who has not long to live. From The Girls Own Paper. (London, c1890)

Interior of Haddon Hall, 19th century. Artist: Laslett John Pott
Interior of Haddon Hall, 19th century. Painting by Laslett John Pott (1837-1898), British history painter, showing Haddon Hall near Bakewell, Derbyshire, in Elizabethan times

Success in Life, 1867. Artist: George du Maurier
Success in Life, 1867. Role reversal and the modern professional woman. In 1865 Elizabeth Garrett Anderson (1836-1917) was licensed to practice by the Society of Apothecaries

Evening, c1880. An agricultural labourer returning from work to his family and his evening meal eagerly greeted by four children. The cottage door opens directly into the living room

Table Service of a Lady of Quality, 15th century
Table Service of a Lady of Quality ; French noblewoman dining with members of her household, 15th century. The noblewoman is being waited on by servants and a butler wearing tunic

Detail of a Roman floor mosaic showing dice players, 3rd century
Detail of a Roman floor mosaic showing dice players, from a dining room at El Jem, Tunisia. From the Bardo Museums collection in Tunis, 3rd century

English family taking a meal in the station buffet at Boulogne, France, 1886. A poodle begs the children for food

Dining car on the Union Pacific Railroad, USA, 1870. From The Graphic, London, 1870

A Degenerate Daughter, 1870. Artist: George du Maurier
A Degenerate Daughter, 1870. The extended family at breakfast. The young mother is concerned only for her family, whilst the Matriarch points to the startled and timid-looking defender of the realm

Dining room on board the lightship Relandersgrund, Helsinki, Finland, 2011. Artist: Sheldon Marshall
Dining room on board the lightship Relandersgrund, Helsinki, Finland, 2011. Built in 1888, this lightship was decommissioned in 1937

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