Title

'Domestic Fowl', c1850. Artist: Benjamin Waterhouse Hawkins

Caption

'Domestic Fowl', c1850. The central image shows a cockerel, hens and chicks. Surrounding vignettes show (clockwise from top left): buying and selling chickens at market; a farmer's wife in the poultry yard; collecting eggs from nesting boxes; poulterer's shop; cooking chickens on a spit; mattress and pillows filled with feathers; children playing shuttlecock; tail feathers used for a military cockade; eggs and chicken for food. From Graphic Illustrations of Animals and Their Utility to Man published by Thomas Varty. (London, c1850).
Oxford Science Archive

Date

1850

Credit line

Photo12/Heritage Images

Reference

HRM19B66_285

Model release

No

License type

Rights managed

Available size

50,0Mb (2,8Mb) / 15,0in x 12,9in / 4509 x 3873 (300dpi)

Keywords

building buildings agriculture food people sport egg bird birds farm British color colour chick chicken feathers cockerel feather rooster cock war Victorian century Britain pillow soldiers soldier concept hen badminton mattress farmyard military uniform 19th century nineteenth century Oxford Science Archive cockade lithograph Thomas Benjamin Waterhouse Hawkins Thomas Varty Varty Hawkins Benjamin Waterhouse Thomas Varty lithograph