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Savour British flavours of the season / Fortnum & Mason.

Wormwood Scrubs prison, London: four cooks in prison uniform standing in a line in front of buckets and baskets. Process print after P. Renouard, 1889.

Crimean War: A.B. Soyer's kitchen camp. Wood engraving, 1855.

Boer War: hospital cooks preparing food in the open air. Halftone, c.1900.

Constantinople: the head cook in the imperial household. Engraving by G. Scotin the elder, 1714, after J.B. Van Mour.

"Madame Petit" and her cook: a woman holding a dish out to a man wearing an apron and a cook's hat. Etching by A. Pond, 1741, after P.L. Ghezzi.

Indian pastry chef and wife. Gouache drawing.

An obese doctor acknowledging the favours of a French chef in his kitchen; denoting their complicity, the chef's food providing patients. Coloured etching by C. Williams, c. 1815.

Lord Lyndhurst, as a cook with a large ladle in his hand, is roasting beef on the spit as a large kettle boils. Etching by W. Heath, 1829.

A woman inn-keeper and her cook stand outside the hotel watching the arrival of a coach in the high street. Coloured lithograph by A.J.L. Jazet, 1843.

Crimean War: Barrack Hospital kitchen, Scutari, Turkey. Wood engraving by Dalziel Bros after H.G. Hine.

A Paria cook and wife. Gouache drawing.

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Cooks

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Images referencing Cooks

Works from the collections

An obese doctor acknowledging the favours of a French chef in his kitchen; denoting their complicity, the chef's food providing patients. Coloured etching by C. Williams, c. 1815.

Crimean War: Barrack Hospital kitchen, Scutari, Turkey. Wood engraving by Dalziel Bros after H.G. Hine.

A woman inn-keeper and her cook stand outside the hotel watching the arrival of a coach in the high street. Coloured lithograph by A.J.L. Jazet, 1843.

A Paria cook and wife. Gouache drawing.

Boer War: hospital cooks preparing food in the open air. Halftone, c.1900.

Cooks

Images from the collections

Images referencing Cooks

Works from the collections

An obese doctor acknowledging the favours of a French chef in his kitchen; denoting their complicity, the chef's food providing patients. Coloured etching by C. Williams, c. 1815.

Crimean War: Barrack Hospital kitchen, Scutari, Turkey. Wood engraving by Dalziel Bros after H.G. Hine.

A woman inn-keeper and her cook stand outside the hotel watching the arrival of a coach in the high street. Coloured lithograph by A.J.L. Jazet, 1843.

A Paria cook and wife. Gouache drawing.

Boer War: hospital cooks preparing food in the open air. Halftone, c.1900.

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