Feast Gallery

John Bull taking Luncheon or British Cooks cramming Old Grumble Gizzard with Bonne Chere

2966820 John Bull taking Luncheon or British Cooks cramming Old Grumble Gizzard with Bonne Chere, pub 1798 (hand coloured engraving) by Gillray, James (1757-1815); Private Collection; (add.info.: Alexander Hood, Viscount Bridport (1726 - 1814); Adam Duncan, Viscount Duncan (1731 - 1804); Charles James Fox (1749 - 1806); Alan Gardner, Baron Gardner (1742 - 1808); Richard Howe, Earl Howe (1726 -1799); Horatio Nelson, Viscount Nelson (1758 - 185); John Jervis, Earl of St Vincent (135 - 1823); Richard Brinsley Sheridan (1751 - 1816); Sir John Boriase Warren (1753 - 1822);); The Stapleton Collection; English, out of copyright

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Feast from Book of Esther, 1430 artwork

Feast from Book of Esther. Illuminated manuscript miniature from the 15th-century Alba Bible, depicting the feast given by Queen Vashti and King Ahasuerus of Persia (The Book of Esther). Vashti was banished and a Jewish girl Esther succeeded her as Queen of Persia. The Alba Bible, completed in 1430, is a translation of the Old Testament from Hebrew into Medieval Castilian. It was commissioned in 1422. The 513 pages are illustrated with 334 miniatures, produced by members of the Franciscan Order in Toledo. The original is displayed in Madrid, Spain. 500 facsimile editions were produced in 1992

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An Election Entertainment, 1755 (oil on canvas)

SJS22527 An Election Entertainment, 1755 (oil on canvas) by Hogarth, William (1697-1764); 101.5x127 cm; Courtesy of the Trustees of Sir John Soane's Museum, London; (add.info.: Plate I of four in Humours of an Election series
Tavern dinner (Oxford?) organised by Whig candidates to gather support from assembly of drunken citizens, their agent hit by a brick through the window by one of the Tory crowd demonstrating outside against Whig reform of the Marriage Act, Jewish naturalisation and calendar revision ('Give us our Eleven Days')); A© Sir John Soane's Museum ; English, out of copyright

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