EditorialPhotograph - 'A Store', Egypt, Captain Edward Albert McKenna, World War I, 1914-1915, One of 139 photographs in an album from World War I likely to have been taken by Captain Edward Albert McKenna. The photographs include the 7th Battalion training in ...
EditorialStanding man with glass and jug, Design for a print, standing figure, glass of wine (taking (particular) foodstuffs: eating, drinking, smoking, chewing, etc.), Jean Th?odore Joseph Linnig, 1847, paper, ink, chalk, pencil, pen, h 86 mm ? w 54 mm.
EditorialFour smoking and drinking men at a table, stimulating drinks (taking (particular) foodstuffs: eating, drinking, smoking, chewing, etc.), pipe, tobacco (taking (particular) foodstuffs: eating, Abraham Delfos, Leiden, 1754, paper, etching, h 163 mm ? w 1...
EditorialBowl, with a depiction or 'A Midnight Modern Conversation' by William Hogarth (1697-1764) Bowl, multi-colored painted with a performance after 'A Midnight Modern Conversation' by William Hogarth, hemispherical bowl on a stand ring, from painted porcela...
EditorialDrinking woman and smoking man, foodstuffs, still life of foodstuffs (taking (particular) foodstuffs: eating, drinking, smoking, chewing, etc.), Abraham Delfos (mentioned on object), Leiden, 1755, paper, etching.
EditorialTwo children with a bottle of liquor and a pipe for a shed, alcoholic drinks (foodstuffs in a glass bottle or jar, bottled), pipe, tobacco, Europe, anonymous, c. 1850 - c. 1880, cardboard, photographic paper, albumen print, h 85 mm ? w 170 mm.
EditorialFour smoking and drinking men at a table, Four smoking and drinking men at a table. In lower margin Dutch verse in four lines about the volatility of life, pipe, tobacco (taking (particular) foodstuffs: eating, drinking, smoking, chewing, etc.), stimul...
EditorialSmoking man, A winking smoking man on a chair in an interior. In the background three farmers with a fireplace, one eye closed, winking, pipe, tobacco (taking (particular) foodstuffs: eating, drinking, smoking, chewing, etc.), open fire, fire-place, st...
EditorialKak iz khleba sdelat' sitets? [How do you make cotton from grain?] 'This is very simple. A peasant can make anything of bread, anything he needs. A peasant should only give out all spare bread at a collection point for the fixed price. A worker then wi...
EditorialFlying Panel Metate, 1st?5th century, Costa Rica, Atlantic Watershed, Stone, H.10 x W. 15 x D. 24 in. (25.4 x 38.1 x 61 cm), Stone-Implements, Metates, tablelike objects of stone used in ancient Mesoamerica for the grinding of foodstuffs such as corn, ...
EditorialSeal from a Jar with the Names of Amenhotep III, New Kingdom, Dynasty 18, ca. 1390?1352 B.C., Probably from Egypt, Upper Egypt, Thebes, Malqata, Mud, pottery, paint, h. 22 cm (8 11/16 in), The Egyptians used large pottery jars to store wine and other f...
EditorialCeremonial Metate, 4th?8th century, Costa Rica, Guanacaste-Nicoya, Stone, H. 20 1/8 x W. 10 in. (51.2 x 25.4 cm), Stone-Implements, Even today, stone metates in the Americas are used to grind maize and other foodstuffs. Certain ancient rituals must hav...
EditorialCeremonial Metate, 10th?11th century, Costa Rica, Atlantic Watershed, Stone, H. 9 x Diam.14 3/4 in. (22.9 x 37.5 cm), Stone-Implements, Decorated metates carved of volcanic stone originated in the utilitarian forms that were used for grinding foodstuff...