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Smoking paraphernalia

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  • Two Malay men and a woman sit and recline on the floor smoking opium. Wood-engraving, late 19th century.
  • Men smoking, drinking and singing in a dingy smoke den. Engraving by J. Goldar after E. van Heemskerk.
  • The figure of a man with extra large head made up from cigars, pipes, tobacco leaves, etc. Coloured lithograph by T. Worth?, c. 1880.
  • Two Chinese opium smokers in a booth watched by a woman who fans herself. Wood-engraving, late 19th century.
  • An Englishman and Asian man under an arbor playing chess and both smoking the hooka. Coloured aquatint by T. Rickards, c. 1804, after C. Gold.
  • The interior of a dingy smoke den where groups of men smoke, drink and play cards. Engraving by F. del Pedro, 18th century, after a painting by D. Teniers, the younger.
  • Two wealthy Chinese opium smokers. Gouache painting on rice-paper, 19th century.
  • An Indian man sits with a smoking hookah on his knee. Lithograph by J. Nash, 1846, after D. Wilkie.
  • A man vomits into a bowl as his companion lifts his wig and steadies the bowl. Coloured etching by T. Sandars, 1773, after J. Collier.
  • An Arab sheikh smoking a hooka attended by his pipe-bearer. Coloured lithograph by Saint Germain, c. 1850, after E. Prisse.
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Works

  • view Three men sit smoking at a barrel-table in a dingy smoke-filled den, others play cards. Engraving by R. Cooper, c. 1813, after J.(?) W. Strutt after D. Teniers the younger.
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    Three men sit smoking at a barrel-table in a dingy smoke-filled den, others play cards. Engraving by R. Cooper, c. 1813, after J.(?) W. Strutt after D. Teniers the younger.

    Teniers, David, 1610-1690 | Date: 1 November 1813 | Reference: 24833i
  • view A man sits at a table lighting his pipe. Etching by D. Deuchar (?) after A. van Ostade (?).
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    A man sits at a table lighting his pipe. Etching by D. Deuchar (?) after A. van Ostade (?).

    Ostade, Adriaen van, 1610-1685 | Reference: 24714i
  • view The interior of a dingy smoke den where groups of men smoke, drink and play cards. Engraving by F. del Pedro, 18th century, after a painting by D. Teniers, the younger.
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    The interior of a dingy smoke den where groups of men smoke, drink and play cards. Engraving by F. del Pedro, 18th century, after a painting by D. Teniers, the younger.

    Teniers, David, 1610-1690 | Date: [between 1700 and 1799] | Reference: 24726i
  • view A wealthy Mohammedan smoking a hooka as two attendants fan him. Engraving by J. Stephenson, 1835, after W. Daniell.
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    A wealthy Mohammedan smoking a hooka as two attendants fan him. Engraving by J. Stephenson, 1835, after W. Daniell.

    Daniell, William, 1769-1837 | Date: 1 October 1835 | Reference: 25401i
  • view Five men sit indoors smoking and drinking, others play cards. Engraving, mid-19th century, by W. French after D. Teniers.
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    Five men sit indoors smoking and drinking, others play cards. Engraving, mid-19th century, by W. French after D. Teniers.

    Teniers, David, 1610-1690 | Reference: 24834i
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