concept

Two Greenwich Pensioners sitting in the garden of a tavern, near the Hospital, a woman behind listening to them, another Pensioner in the distance on the right. Mezzotint, 1791.

Men smoking, drinking and singing in a dingy smoke den. Engraving by J. Goldar after E. van Heemskerk.

A Greenwich pensioner, filling a pipe with tobacco, a tankard of ale at his elbow. Engraving by J. Jenkins after M. W. Sharp.

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.

The manufacture of tobacco with leaves being sorted, dried, cured and pressed. Engraving, c. 1750.

Tobacco (Nicotiana sp.): flowering stem with separate leaf. Coloured etching by M. Bouchard, 1772.

A man on horseback surveys his house in a tobacco plantation in Cuba. Tinted lithograph, mid-19th century.

A tobacco plantation in the Caribbean islands, with black workers and a white overseer. Engraving, 1683.

A man blowing out clouds of smoke from a long pipe, with a tobacco plant to his right. Halftone, c. 1890, after a woodcut, c. 1616.

Reproduction of a photograph of a boy holding a cigar taken in Thailand. This reproduction was made from an unidentified source.

"M" series glass plate negatives: M0002315-M0002451

1 photograph glass plate negative; 12 x 16.5 cm

M0002412: A boy holding a cigar, Thailand

Die Rauchhere : alten und jungen Gliedern des Raucherordens, sonderlich rauchenden Vätern, Lehrern und Geistlichen zur genaueren Betrachtung und Warnung vorgeführt : nebst einem Emancipationsvorschlage / von J. Strebel.

Cope's smoke room booklets

59 pages : illustrations, portrait ; 20 cm.

Thomas Carlyle : table talk.

A man sits at a table lighting his pipe. Etching by D. Deuchar (?) after A. van Ostade (?).

1 print : engraving ; image 29.6 x 39.5 cm

Galleries and Reading Room

Library

Shop

Café

We’re undertaking research with website visitors to find out some more about you and what you thought about your visit. This survey will take less than 10 minutes to complete. Thank you for your time!

What brought you to our website today?

Wellcome uses cookies.

Tobacco

Images

Catalogue

M0002412: A boy holding a cigar, Thailand

Die Rauchhere : alten und jungen Gliedern des Raucherordens, sonderlich rauchenden Vätern, Lehrern und Geistlichen zur genaueren Betrachtung und Warnung vorgeführt : nebst einem Emancipationsvorschlage / von J. Strebel.

Thomas Carlyle : table talk.

A man sits at a table lighting his pipe. Etching by D. Deuchar (?) after A. van Ostade (?).

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.

Wellcome uses cookies.

Tobacco

Images

Catalogue

M0002412: A boy holding a cigar, Thailand

Die Rauchhere : alten und jungen Gliedern des Raucherordens, sonderlich rauchenden Vätern, Lehrern und Geistlichen zur genaueren Betrachtung und Warnung vorgeführt : nebst einem Emancipationsvorschlage / von J. Strebel.

Thomas Carlyle : table talk.

A man sits at a table lighting his pipe. Etching by D. Deuchar (?) after A. van Ostade (?).

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.

Wellcome Collection

Today’s opening times