Table Collection (page 70)

Still Life with Books, 17th century. Artist: Gerrit van Vucht
Still Life with Books, 17th century. Found in the collection of the State A Pushkin Museum of Fine Arts, Moscow

A Fishmongers Shop, 17th century. Artist: Frans Snyders
A Fishmongers Shop, 17th century. Snyders, Frans (1579-1657). Found in the collection of the State Hermitage, St. Petersburg

A Butcher Shop, 1630s. Artist: Frans Snyders
A Butcher Shop, 1630s. Snyders, Frans (1579-1657). Found in the collection of the State A. Pushkin Museum of Fine Arts, Moscow

Still life with a Swan, 1640s. Artist: Frans Snyders
Still life with a Swan, 1640s. Snyders, Frans (1579-1657). Found in the collection of the State A. Pushkin Museum of Fine Arts, Moscow

A Fishmongers Shop, c1616-1618. Artist: Frans Snyders
A Fishmongers Shop, c1616-1618. Snyders, Frans (1579-1657). Found in the collection of the State A. Pushkin Museum of Fine Arts, Moscow

Breakfast Time, 1887. Artist: Hanna Pauli
Breakfast Time, 1887. Found in the collection of the Nationalmuseum, Stockholm

Visitors with Russian author Alexander Kuprin and his family, Gatchina, Russia, early 20th century. Kuprin (1870-1938) was a short story writer described by Vladimir Nabokov as the Russian Kipling

Four Russian poets, early 20th century. Artist: Dmitri Spiridonovich Zdobnov
Four Russian poets, early 20th century. Group portrait of the Symbolist poets (left to right) Georgy Chulkov (1879-1939), Konstantin Erberg (1871-1942)

Greek terracotta of a woman making bread
A Greek terracotta of a woman kneading the dough to make bread

Roman wallpainting of a dinner-party, Pompeii, Italy

The Grand Saloon on board the Great Eastern, 1859. Designed by Isambard Kingdom Brunel with John Scott Russell, the Great Eastern was lauched in 1858

Doctor Syntax making his will, c1816. Artist: Thomas Rowlandson
Doctor Syntax making his will, c1816. Servants leave the room so that he can speak with his lawyer in privacy. Illustration for Tours of Dr Syntax by William Combe. (London, c1816)

Fidgety Joe, 1903. Artist: Edward Linley Sambourne
Fidgety Joe, 1903. The troubles of coalition government. Two parents representing the Duke of Devonshire and Arthur Balfour (centre)

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

The End of the Feast, c1895. Artist: Martin Anderson
The End of the Feast, c1895. A boy in bed shows his furred tongue to a doctor who feels the boys pulse. On the table is bottle of castor oil (Ricinus) which will be given as a laxative

Passover. After a miniature from a 15th century missal

Anthony Panizzi, Italian bibliographer, 1874. Artist: Carlo Pellegrini
Anthony Panizzi, Italian bibliographer, 1874. Panizzi (1797-1879) fled the 1821 revolution in Italy and became Chief Librarian at the British Museum (1856-1866), where he designed the Reading Room

Joseph Arch (1826-1919), English agricultural worker, trade unionist and politician, 1886
Joseph Arch (1826-1919), English agricultural worker, trade unionist and politician. The interior of Archs cottage at Barford, Warwickshire

Sholes Type Writer, 1872. A woman using a typewriter by the American inventor Christopher Latham Sholes (1819-1890). A forerunner of the 20th century machine

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

Saint Paul the Apostle, 17th century. Artist: Claude Vignon
Saint Paul the Apostle, 17th century. Saul of Tarsus (1st century) who took the name Paul after seeing a vision of Christ on the road to Damascus

William Brodie, Scottish cabinetmaker and criminal, 1788. Artist: John Kay
William Brodie, Scottish cabinetmaker and criminal, 1788. A prosperous Edinburgh cabintmaker, Brodie (1741-1788) had a secret life as the leader of a gang of burglars

Pythagoras, Greek mathematician, 1508. Pythagoras (right) using a counting table, competes against Boethius (Boece) using algorithms for speed at calculation

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

Three generations listening to a reading from the family Bible, c1800. Artist: Maria Spilsbury
Three generations listening to a reading from the family Bible, c1800. Grandparents, parents and two children sit at the table, and a baby lies in a basketwork cradle

Jesus and the money changers, c1860. Jesus, angrily overturning the tables of money changers and dealers and turning them out of the Temple in Jerusalem. From the Bible (Matthew 21). (London, c1860)

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)

Scene from Jane Austens Persuasion, 1897. Artist: Hugh Thomson
Scene from Jane Austens Persuasion, 1897. Austens last novel, Persuasion was published in 1818. In this scene, Captain Wentworth gives Anne Elliot his note of declaration

Conjuror performing tricks, 1715. From an edition of Magia Naturalis by Gianbattista della Porta

King John signing the Magna Carta at Runnymede, Surrey, 15 June 1215 (c1860). John (1167?-1216) became King of England in 1199

Jean-Henri Fabre, French entomologist, c early 20th century. Fabre (1823-1915), author of numerous books on the anatomy and behaviour of insects, in his study at Serignan, Vaucluse, France

President William McKinleys state bedroom at the White House, 1901. McKinley (1843-1901) 25th President of USA from 1896, was shot by an anarchist, Leon Czolgosz

Ladies and gentlemen playing La Bouillotte, France, c1804-1814. French Empire scene with fashionable people playing the card game of Bouillotte

Camera obscura, c1840. The illustration shows how the scene outside was collected by a mirror tilted at 45 degrees (B), passed through a meniscus lens between F and C

Camera obscura, 1855. Drawing a landscape using a portable camera obscura in the form of a tent. From The Museum of Science and Art by Dionysius Lardner. (London, 1855)

Seaside visitors paying a visit to the camera obscura, 1862. The viewers sat in a darkened chamber: the scene around was collected by the mirror (A) and passed through a convex lens (B)

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

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

Meeting of Generals Grant (left) and Lee, American Civil War, 1865. Artist: Currier and Ives
Meeting of Generals Grant (left) and Lee, American Civil War, 1865. Grant and Lee meeting on Palm Sunday 1865 to work out terms for the surrender of Lees Army of Northern Virginia

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

History of Paper: 2, c1900. Papyrus reed (Cyperus papyrus) being used to make writing material in Ancient Egypt. The stem of the reed was used to make a form of paper

The Senator, 19th century

The Two Consuls Cambaceres and Le Brun nominate Napoleon Emperor, 19th century

A elephant in the Pre-Catalan Cafe, Toulouse, France, 1891. Artist: Henri Meyer
A elephant in the Pre-Catalan Cafe, Toulouse, France, 1891. A print from a supplement to the Le Petit Journal, 14th November 1891

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

French Foreign Legion christmas, Algeria, 1910. French postcard

The refreshment bar, Chamber of Deputies of France, Paris, 1892. Artist: Henri Meyer
The refreshment bar, Chamber of Deputies of France, Paris, 1892. From left to right: Basly, Pelletan, Thivrier, Le Senne, Laguerre, De Cassagnac, and Rivet

Le Tabac, 17th century. Artist: Abraham Bosse
Le Tabac, 17th century. Officers drinking and smoking clay pipes. In the left background is a curtained bed. Engraving after Jean de Saint-Igny (c1600-1649)

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