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Elinour Rummin, an English ale-wife, with a tankard in each hand. Engraving with letterpress, 1813 1624.

Elinour Rummin, a well known landlady of an ale-house. Line engraving.

Barclay and Perkins brewery, Southwark: visitors in a storeroom full of casks of ale. Wood-engraving, 1847.

Six fashionable young men carousing round a table as a serving man opens another bottle of ale. Engraving, c. 1796.

A British sailor sitting contentedly with a tankard of ale. Aquatint with etching, c. 1781.

Barclay and Perkins brewery, Southwark: visitors in a store for vats and barrels. Wood-engraving, 1847.

Different kinds of "drawing". Pencil drawing by S. Jenner, 18--.

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A British sailor sitting contentedly with a tankard of ale. Aquatint with etching, c. 1781.

Elinour Rummin, a well known landlady of an ale-house. Line engraving.

Barclay and Perkins brewery, Southwark: visitors in a storeroom full of casks of ale. Wood-engraving, 1847.

Barclay and Perkins brewery, Southwark: visitors in a store for vats and barrels. Wood-engraving, 1847.

Different kinds of "drawing". Pencil drawing by S. Jenner, 18--.