Today’s menu features an English landscape painter named John Constable (1776-1837). The cover also shows Willy Lott’s Cottage, a house that was featured in several of Constable’s paintings and that survives today, partly because it was popularized by Constable. One of the paintings that featured the cottage, the Hay Wain, won a gold medal in Paris and today is considered one of the two most popular paintings in England.

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This particular menu was used on the Empress of England on June 16, 1957. This was for the “au revoir dinner” and page 2 of the menu includes a summary of the log of the six-day voyage.

Like yesterday’s menu, this one has potentially fourteen or even fifteen course, including the sorbet that was missing from yesterday’s. Unlike yesterday’s, this one doesn’t have a suggested dinner combination (because the space for that was taken up by the ship’s log). I wonder if this led some diners to eat more courses than at the dinners with the suggestion, which only included eight courses.