Items matching food

Seamen in great distress eat one another

These sailors have only a tattered sail on their mast, and are in a small lifeboat in a raging storm, with a sea inhabited by a strange giant fish. A sailor near the stern of the boat is about to be [...]

Keywords: boats, people, storms, ships, fish, waves, food

Places shown: none

Added: 2006-11-04

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The Butcher, Newport Market Alley

A bearded butcher chops meat, seemingly on a tree-stump, surrounded by his customers. “What! you have no district markets in London! People buy their meat and vegetables in these horrible little shops [...]

Keywords: people, poverty, beards, shopkeepers, food

Places shown: London; England

Added: 2008-10-27

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A Banquet

A medieval feast! Two people are seated behind a table laden with food; at either side a person (a servant or slave perhaps) kneels and hands food to one of the seated figures. Between the two seat [...]

Keywords: colour, food, people, thanksgiving, feasts, servants, tables

Places shown: none

Added: 2006-08-26

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Mad Hatter just as hastily leaves

The Mad Hatter runs out of court in his socks, carrying sandwich and (bitten) teacup.

Keywords: alice, people, humour, food, illustrations for children

Places shown: none

Added: 2006-12-04

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Hatter engaging in rhetoric

“ ‘Well, I’d hardly finished the first verse,’ said the Hatter, ‘when the Queen jumped up and bawled out, “He’s murdering the time! Off with his head!” ’ ‘How dreadfully savage!’ exclaimed Alice. ‘And [...]

Keywords: alice, people, hats, food, illustrations for children

Places shown: none

Added: 2006-06-30

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Cook, Duchess, Cheshire Cat, Baby, and Alice

“The door led right into a large kitchen, which was full of smoke from one end to the other: the Duchess was sitting on a three-legged stool in the middle, nursing a baby; the cook was leaning over th [...]

Keywords: alice, people, cats, infants, interiors, kitchens, food, illustrations for children

Places shown: none

Added: 2006-05-26

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Mad Hatter and March Hare dunking the Dormouse

“This piece of rudeness was more than Alice could bear: she got up in great disgust, and walked off; the Dormouse fell asleep instantly, and neither of the others took the least notice of her going, t [...]

Keywords: alice, people, animals, food, illustrations for children

Places shown: none

Added: 2006-06-30

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Mad Hatter’s Tea Party

“There was a table set out under a tree in front of the house, and the March Hare and the Hatter were having tea at it: a Dormouse was sitting between them, fast asleep, and the other two were using i [...]

Keywords: alice, food, animals, hats, illustrations for children

Places shown: none

Added: 2006-06-30

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Father William finished the goose

‘You are old,’ said the youth, ‘and your jaws are too weak     For anything tougher than suet; Yet you finished the goose, with the bones and the beak—     Pray how did you manage to do it?’ ‘In my [...]

Keywords: alice, people, food, interiors, illustrations for children

Places shown: none

Added: 2006-05-26

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First Nations Chocolatiers

Some naked and almost-naked people making chocolate. There are llamas in the background, and cocoa-trees e.g. on the right. Update: They are not making chocolate. The trees are probably papaya, but I [...]

Keywords: people, nudity, bare feet, food, chocolate, native americans, first nations, wallpaper, backgrounds

Places shown: none

Added: 2008-11-14

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All goes down Gutter-lane; As Wise as a Man of Gotham; As good as George of Green; [woodcut: stout man drinks from mug, holds saussage with a fork]

Keywords: page images, proverbs, people, food

Places shown: unspecified

Added: 2005-07-15

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Pease Porridge Hot

a woman wearing a white apron is carrying a steaming hot pot of porridge; two children each have an empty bowl and a spoon. PEAS PORRIDGE Pease Porridge Hot,     Pease Porridge cold, Pease Porridge in [...]

Keywords: illustrations for children, people, food, colour

Places shown: none

Added: 2007-11-01

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