Items matching food (results page 1)

Decorative initial letter O with cherbus cooking soup Fabrica... (1543)

A Decorative initial letter “O” used as a drop cap on the first page of this famous book. THe outer border around the outside of the letter “O” has oak leaves and dragons; inside the “O” we see naked [...]

Keywords: lettero, initials, children, nudity, bare feet, dragons, borders, mythical creatures, cooking, food, greyscale

Places shown: unspecified

Added: 2010-01-19

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First Nations Chocolatiers The New World (1671)

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, greyscale

Places shown: none

Added: 2008-11-14

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Pease Porridge Hot The Real Mother Goose (1919)

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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A Banquet A Short History of the English People (1902)

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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Hot Codlins The Real Mother Goose (1919)

Keywords: illustrations for children, colour, people, food

Places shown: none

Added: 2007-11-01

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239.—Convivial Party. Harleian MS. No. 603. Old England: A Pictorial Museum (1845)

Harleian MS. 603 is an Anglo-Saxon illuminated psalter from the middle of the 10th century. The party looks more like outright debauchery than just convivial to me!

Keywords: people, celebrations, food, wine, drink, eating, saxon england, bare feet, greyscale

Places shown: none

Added: 2010-12-11

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51.—Serving at a Banquet La Vita Nuova (The New Life) (1910)

Two men, servants, wearing mediæval outfits with hose (tights) and hats, proceed presumably to a banquet, one with a flask and one with a pie. Overhead, cherubs play musical instruments. In the backgr [...]

Keywords: people, mediaeval, castles, battlements, food, servants people, christmas, colour

Places shown: none

Added: 2012-12-25

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Servant with Food La Vita Nuova (The New Life) (1910)

A young man wearing hose, a doublet and a helmet or tall hat is carrying a plate, perhaps with a pie or even a roast chicken. He is gong to serve at a mediæval banquet.

This is a detail from Fig. 51.

Keywords: people, food, servants, costumes, greyscale

Places shown: none

Added: 2012-12-25

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Seamen in great distress eat one another Wonderful Prodigies of Judgement and Mercy (1685)

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, colour

Places shown: none

Added: 2006-11-04

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Bakehouse of the Fifteenth Century The National and Domestic History of England Vol 2 (1878)

In this wood engraving two people are working in a bakery, or bake-house. One is putting dough into a brick oven to bake using a long spoon-shaped device, and the other is carrying a ball of dough rea [...]

Keywords: people, trades, baking, food, cotumes, greyscale

Places shown: none

Added: 2012-05-05

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The Butcher, Newport Market Alley London (1872)

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, greyscale

Places shown: London; England

Added: 2008-10-27

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Father William finished the goose Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland (1865)

‘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, greyscale

Places shown: none

Added: 2006-06-20

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