Hungry Collection

Flowers and Birds, 19th century. Creator: Taki Katei
Flowers and Birds, 19th century. Meiji period

The Bottle, 1847. Artist: George Cruikshank
The Bottle, 1847; showing an interior domestic scene with the father sitting in front of the fire smoking having been discharged from his employment because of his drunkeness

The Cotton Famine: operatives waiting for their breakfast in Mr. Chapman's courtyard..., 1862. Creator: Unknown
The Cotton Famine: operatives waiting for their breakfast in Mr. Chapman's courtyard, Mottram, near Manchester, 1862. Unemployed mill workers. Engraving of a photograph by Mr. Gothard

The Cotton Famine: working men's dining-hall, Gaythorn cooking-depot, Manchester, 1862. Creator: Unknown
The Cotton Famine: working men's dining-hall, Gaythorn cooking-depot, Manchester, 1862. Meals for unemployed Lancashire mill workers

Berlin, goulash for 8 cents, 1916. Creator: Bain News Service
Berlin, goulash for 8 cents, 1916. Women serving food from a mobile lunch kitchen in Berlin in 1916 during World War I. Sign reads translated from German: "Warm lunch

German artillerists on firing line, Verdun, between c1914 and c1915. Creator: Bain News Service
German artillerists on firing line, Verdun, between c1914 and c1915. German soldiers eating during World War I, Verdun, France.

Poor in North France fed from German field kitchen, between c1914 and c1915. Creator: Bain News Service
Poor in North France fed from German field kitchen, between c1914 and c1915. Crowd of mostly women and children outside a brick building in northern France during World War I.

The Cotton Famine: distributing tickets for bread, soup, meat, meal, coal etc, Manchester, 1862. Creator: Unknown
The Cotton Famine: distributing tickets for bread, soup, meat, meal, coal etc, at the office of a district provident society, Manchester, 1862. From "Illustrated London News", 1862

The Cotton Famine: provision-shop...Manchester and Salford Provident Society, 1862. Creator: Unknown
The Cotton Famine: provision-shop where goods are obtained for tickets issued by the Manchester and Salford Provident Society, 1862. Unemployment in Lancashire

The Cotton Famine: the Society of Friends' soup-kitchen...Lower Moseley-street, Manchester, 1862. Creator: Unknown
The Cotton Famine: the Society of Friends' soup-kitchen, Ball-street, Lower Moseley-street, Manchester, 1862. Unemployed Lancashire textiles workers queue for food

The Cotton Famine: waiting-room at the district provident institution, Manchester, 1862. Creator: Unknown
The Cotton Famine: waiting-room at the district provident institution, Manchester, 1862. View of '...the antechamber to the kitchen...Here the distribution [of soup to unemployed Lancashire

The Cotton Famine: dwellings of Manchester operatives, 1862. Creator: Unknown
The Cotton Famine: dwellings of Manchester operatives, 1862. Starvation and destitution among unemployed Lancashire textiles workers. 'No

The Fox Visiting the Heron, early-mid 17th century. Creator: Frans Snyders
The Fox Visiting the Heron, early-mid 17th century

Hungry Peasants at a Meagre Meal. Creator: Unknown
Hungry Peasants at a Meagre Meal

Breakfast-hunting at Roccapalumba, a Sicilian village - from a sketch by our special artist, 1860. Creator: Unknown
Breakfast-hunting at Roccapalumba, a Sicilian village - from a sketch by our special artist, 1860. Having heard...that there was absolutely nothing to be obtained...in the shape of eatables...[it was

Tiger Walking, c1850s-1860s. Creator: Antoine-Louis Barye
Tiger Walking, c1850s-1860s. It is evening, and a tiger is on the prowl looking for a meal

AI IMAGE - Oliver Twist, 2023. Creator: Heritage Images
AI IMAGE - Oliver Twist, 2023. "Oliver Twist; or, The Parish Boy's Progress" by Charles Dickens was published as a serial from 1837 to 1839

AI IMAGE - Oliver Twist, 2023. Creator: Heritage Images
AI IMAGE - Oliver Twist, 2023. "Oliver Twist; or, The Parish Boy's Progress" by Charles Dickens was published as a serial from 1837 to 1839

"Saying Grace" - from a picture by A. Neuhuys...New British Institution...1876. Creator: Unknown
"Saying Grace" - from a picture by A. Neuhuys, in the exhibition of the New British Institution, 1876. Engraving of a painting

The Self-sacrifice of a father, 1784. Creator: Jacques Henri Sablet
The Self-sacrifice of a father, 1784. A man provides bread for his hungry family having undergone some sort of personal injury or detriment in exchange for the food

L'Acteur des Funambules, 1842. Creator: Honore Daumier
L'Acteur des Funambules, 1842. The tightrope actor. En v'la un temps qui vous rend passionne! et tout a l'heure va falloir etre brulant d'amour en turc et dire - "o Zulema

Sketches in China - Heads of the People - a sketch at the Rev. Mr. Huleatt's Rice... 1858. Creator: Unknown
Sketches in China - Heads of the People - a sketch at the Rev. Mr. Huleatt's Rice Distribution at Canton, 1858. Engraving from a sketch...received by the last Overland Mail from our Special

2 heures - Le gouter d'Azor, 1839. Creator: Honore Daumier
2 heures - Le gouter d'Azor, 1839. 2 o'clock - Azor's snack. Que voulez vous, mon cher, cette bete n'a que moi, vous avez tout le monde'

Dogs Fighting over a Flayed Ox's Head, early-mid 17th century. Creator: Workshop of Frans Snyders
Dogs Fighting over a Flayed Ox's Head, early-mid 17th century

Ventre affamé n'a pas d'oreilles, 1840. Creator: Honore Daumier
Ventre affame n'a pas d'oreilles, 1840. A hungry belly has no ears. From Proverbes et Maximes

Man Eating from an Earthenware Pot, c.1660-c.1680. Creator: Daniel Boone
Man Eating from an Earthenware Pot, c.1660-c.1680

Eagles on the Cliffs, 1857. Creator: Jan Fyt
Eagles on the Cliffs, 1857

Chaffinches and Dragonflies. Five studies in one frame, 1885. Creator: Bruno Liljefors
Chaffinches and Dragonflies. Five studies in one frame, 1885

Les manifestations contre "la vie chere" en Hollande; camionnage de pommes de terre... 1916
Les manifestations contre "la vie chere" en Hollande; camionnage de pommes de terre sous la garde de soldats hollandais, 1916. From "Collection de la Guerre IV

Les manifestations contre "la vie chere" en Hollande; manifestation faminine a Amsterdam... 1916
Les manifestations contre "la vie chere" en Hollande; manifestation faminine a Amsterdam contre la cherte de la vie, 1916. From "Collection de la Guerre IV

To each his own, 1810-1852. Creator: Louis Henri de Fontenay
To each his own, 1810-1852

The Famished People after the Relief of the Siege of Leiden, 1574-1629. Creator: Otto Van Veen
The Famished People after the Relief of the Siege of Leiden, 1574-1629. Other Title(s): Distribution of Herring and White Bread at the Relief of Leiden, 3 October 1574

Feeding the Hungry, 1646-1649. Creator: Michiel Sweerts
Feeding the Hungry, 1646-1649

The Seven Works of Mercy, 1504. Creator: Master of Alkmaar
The Seven Works of Mercy, 1504. Other Title(s): Panel of a polyptych with the seven Corporal Works of Mercy: feeding the hungry

A Dog and a Cat near a partially disembowelled Deer, 1645-1660. Creator: Jan Baptist Weenix
A Dog and a Cat near a partially disembowelled Deer, 1645-1660

Des prisonniers Allemands, qui viennent de toucher leur ration de pain, 1915. Creator: Unknown
'Le bon pain Francais; Des prisonniers Allemands, qui viennent de toucher leur ration de pain de troupe, ne dissimulent pas leur satisfaction, 1915

2 heures, 1839. Creator: Honore Daumier
Singles Day (La Journee du Celibataire) - 2 heures, 1839. 2 hours

Premiers Prisonniers Allemands, 1914. Creator: Unknown
'Premiers Prisonniers Allemands; Les prisonniers que nous faisons plaignent, le plus souvent, d'avoir faim et soif, 1914. From "L'Album de la Guerre 1914-1919: Volume I"

Breadline, 1900. Creator: George Benjamin Luks
Breadline, 1900

Feeding the Hungry. Creator: Conrad Meyer
Feeding the Hungry

Esquisse pour l'église de la Trinité : Saint Vincent de Paul secourant les Lorrains après... 1873
Esquisse pour l'eglise de la Trinite : Saint Vincent de Paul secourant les Lorrains apres la guerre de 1637, 1873. Saint Vincent de Paul brings succour to the people of Alsace-Lorraine after

Esquisse pour l'Hôtel de Ville de Paris. Queues à la porte d'une boucherie municipale... 1889
Esquisse pour l'Hotel de Ville de Paris. Queues a la porte d'une boucherie municipale. Le siege de Paris en 1870, 1889. Sketch for the town hall (prefect's office), Hotel de Ville, Paris

Sketch for the Saint-Eustache church (1st arrondissement of Paris): Saint Genevieve...1851
Sketch for the Saint-Eustache church (1st arrondissement of Paris): Saint Genevieve giving bread to the poor, 1851. (Esquisse pour l'eglise Saint-Eustache)

Sketch for the church of Saint-Sulpice, St Genevieve, between 1860 and 1864. Creator: Louis Charles Timbal
Sketch for the church of Saint-Sulpice, St Genevieve, between 1860 and 1864. St Genevieve distributing bread to the poor during the Siege of Paris

Sketch for the church of Saint-Sulpice : St Genevieve distributing bread...between 1860 and 1864
Sketch for the church of Saint-Sulpice : St Genevieve distributing bread to the poor during the Siege of Paris, between 1860 and 1864

Hunger ist der beste Koch, 1898. Creator: Myra Albert Wiggins
Hunger ist der beste Koch, 1898. Photograph shows a little girl, wearing a cap and wooden shoes, seated on a high chair at a wooden table, eating from a bowl

Distress in London - Unemployed waiting at a Soup Kitchen, 1886. Creator: Unknown
Distress in London - Unemployed waiting at a Soup Kitchen, 1886. From "The Graphic. An Illustrated Weekly Newspaper Volume 33. January to June, 1886"

The crab eaters, sketch for the amphitheatre of palaeontology at the Museum of Natural... 1897. Creator: Fernand Cormon
The crab eaters, sketch for the amphitheatre of palaeontology at the Museum of Natural History in Paris, 1897

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