Antiquitates culinariae, or, Curious tracts relating to the culinary affairs of the old English, with a preliminary discourse, notes, and illustrations
Antiquitates culinariae is a 1791 London antiquarian study of old English cookery and feasting, compiled by Richard Warner and printed for R. Blamire for readers interested in the history of social customs. Its pictures are small plates of banquets and dining scenes, drawn after classical vases and medieval manuscripts, with figures seated at long tables, servants carrying dishes, and a harpist; a designer might borrow their ordered groupings of figures, flat terracotta-and-black silhouettes, and arched frames.
