Eating Collection (page 20)

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

Booklet of instructions for a Fantascope, 1833. Artist: Thomas Mann Baynes
Booklet of instructions for a Fantascope, 1833. The Fantascope or Phenakistoscope was an optical toy depending on persistence of vision for its effect

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

Coptic Woodcarving of Donkey, 6th century

Egyptian relief, A Funerary banquet. National Archaeological Museum: Florence

Detail of the Last Supper on embroidered vestments, 14th century
Detail of the Last Supper on embroidered vestments, probably made in Constantinople, 14th century

Ikon painting of the Last Supper Artist: Michel Damaskinos
Ikon painting of the Last Supper from Crete

Actaeon being devoured by Artemis dogs, 5th century BC
A metope showing Actaeon being devoured by Artemis dogs, from temple E at Selinunte. The head and arms are made of Parian marble, and set in limestone

Fresco of the story of Job, 14th century
Fresco of the story of Job, in the Duomo of San Gimignano, 14th century

Elephant eating in Sri Lanka. Artist: CM Dixon
A Sri Lankan Elephant eating in the evening after work, near Kandy in Sri Lanka

Breakfast, early 17th century. Artist: Bartolomeo Manfredi
Breakfast, early 17th century. Found in the collection of the State Art Museum, Kharkiv, Ukraine

Laocoon group sculpture of men being devorued by serpents, 1st century BC. Artist: Pliny the Elder
Laocoon group sculpture, of Laocoon and his sons being devoured by serpents belonging to Athena to prevent them from breaking into the Trojan Horse, which he was suspicious of

Norwegian painting of the last supper, 13th century
Norwegian painting of the last supper, from the apse of Stave church from Gol in Hallingdal. The church was built around 1200 AD

Roman wallpainting of a dinner-party, Pompeii, Italy

The Five Senses: smell, hearing, sight, touch and taste, c1850. Illustration from a childrens book. (London, c1850)

Jesus and his disciples at the Last Supper, c1804. From the Bible (Mark 14.22)

Banquet, 11th century; showing three men being waited on at a table. The central figure and that on the left are tonsured. After an English Psalter

Boy chimney sweeps eating their evening meal, 1861. From London Labour and the London Poor by Henry Mayhew. (London, 1861)

Giraffes browsing, c1885. Jean-Baptiste Lamarck (1744-1829) French naturalist, considered that the giraffe illustrated Transformism (also known as Lamarckism)

Giraffe browsing on a tree, 1836. Jean-Baptiste Lamarck (1744-1829) French naturalist, considered that the giraffe illustrated Transformism (also known as Lamarckism)

A Plantagenet king of England dining. The king depicted is possibly Henry II, who reigned from 1154-1189. Chromolithograph from medieval manuscript

Harold II, last Anglo-Saxon king of England, 1066 (1070s). Harold (c1022-1066) and companions feasting. Harolds succession to the throne was disputed by William of Normandy

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

The luncheon of Camille Desmoulins, 1892. Artist: Leopold Flameng
The luncheon of Camille Desmoulins, 1892. Camille Desmoulins was a French journalist and politician who played an important role in the French Revolution

Food Values in our Restaurants, 1917. The effect of university education for women on everyday life. A waitress, late of Girton College, Cambridge

Crop rotation: sheep on a break of turnips, 1855. Crop rotation is the practice of growing different crops alternately on the same patch of ground over a cycle of several years in order to protect

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

Soup kitchen for the needy, les Halles, German-occupied Paris, February 1941

Restaurant, 1873-1942. Artist: Albert Guillaume
Restaurant, 1873-1942

The Last Supper (detail), 1495-1498. Artist: Leonardo da Vinci
The Last Supper (detail), 1495-1498. The apostles James, Thomas and Philip. The painting is a mural commissioned by Lodovico Sforza

The Last Supper, Detail, 1495-1498. Artist: Leonardo da Vinci
The Last Supper, Detail, 1495-1498. Jesus with the twelve apostles. The painting is a mural commissioned by Lodovico Sforza

Adam and Eve ( The Temptation of Adam ), c1520. Artist: Master of Lucretia
Adam and Eve ( The Temptation of Adam ), c1520. Eve offers Adam the apple of the Tree of Knowledge while the serpent, coiled round a tree, looks on. Adam and Eve are naked but each clutches a fig leaf

Adam and Eve, 1493. Adam and Eve, tempted by the Serpent, eat from the Tree of Knowledge and are expelled from the Garden of Eden by the Angel of the Lord

Ferdinand Alvarez de Toledo, Duke of Alva (1508-1582), Spanish general and statesman. As governor of the Netherlands from 1567-1573, he enforced brutal anti-Protestant rule, executing some 18

Prussian troops at the siege of Paris, Franco-Prussian War, December 1870. Prussian soldiers before Paris waiting for a sortie by the besieged French

Witches destroying a house by fire - Swabia, 1533. Woodcut from Francesco Maria Guazzo Compendium Maleficarum, Milan, 1608

Witches and sorcerers feasting at the Sabbath, 1608. From Compendium Maleficarum, by Francesco Maria Guazzo. [Milan, 1608]

Pottery Bowl of an alligator with human arms devouring snakes, Chiriqui, Panama. Royal Scottish Museum, Edinburgh

Terracotta pot with motif of bird eating a fish, Susa, c2000-c1940 BC
Terracotta pot with motif of bird eating a fish, Susa, Dynasty of Simashki, c2000-c1940 BC. The pot is made of grey terracotta with red paint and white applique. It is now in The Louvre

Dinner time in the first class dining saloon of an Atlantic steamer on a stormy day, c1890. From The Sea: Its Stirring Story of Adventure, Peril & Heroism by F Whymper

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

Sacred Spring: Sweet Dreams (Nave Nave Moe), 1894. Artist: Paul Gauguin
Sacred Spring: Sweet Dreams (Nave Nave Moe), 1894. Detail. Found in the collection of The Hermitage, St Petersburg

Our (Very) Friendly Societies!, 1886. Artist: Joseph Swain
Our (Very) Friendly Societies!, 1886. The representative of Britains honest and sober working-class is diligently posting his small savings into the door of the Cormorant Friendly Society

Causation, 1882. A long-awaited boiled egg arrives, the servant having a different idea of time from her finely-clad mistress. From Punch, or the London Charivari, October 21, 1882

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

A Gentle Vegetarian, 1869. Artist: George du Maurier
A Gentle Vegetarian, 1869. A mighty hippopotamus displays its huge teeth. It is, however, as the hippo points out, the delicate lady on the other side of the cage who feasts on flesh

Pot and Kettle, 1868. Modern farming methods were now being developed in order to provide more produce for a growing population

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