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The distillery of Deacon Giles seen as the work of the Devil. Coloured wood-engraving after G. B. Cheever, ca. 1835.

A still house in a whiskey distillery. Wood engraving, late 19th century.

An elderly anatomist contemplates the heart that he has excised from the corpse of a beautiful, young woman. Photogravure by R. Schuster, 1907, after a painting by E. Simonet, 1890.

Three distillers with streams running from their noses and mouths into a tub of "double rectified spirits". Coloured etching, 1811, after T. Rowlandson.

Three Wallachian men round a log fire with distilling apparatus nearby. Wood engraving, ca. 1870.

A scholar in a surgeon's workroom with a jar of spirits containing Saint Michael defeating a dragon with a barbued tonge; representing the scholar's knowledge of chemistry enabling surgeons to heal, by setting the beneficent force of alkalis against the noxious force of acids. Etching by P.P. Bouche, ca. 1686.

A drunken man and woman lean against pillars leading to a giant distillery with attendant demon; miscellaneous characters round as border. Etching by G. Cruikshank, 1833, after himself.

An elderly anatomist contemplates the heart that he has excised from the corpse of a beautiful, young woman. Photogravure by R. Schuster, 1906, after a painting by E. Simonet, 1890.

Richard Burdon Haldane as an alchemist using bellows, representing his eloquence, to distil a new military unit from three older units. Pen drawing by A.S. Boyd, 1907.

Five labelled sections through parts of a porter brewery. Engraving by W. Lowry, c. 1816, after J. Farey.

The interior of a distillery, with a man seated on a chair smoking a pipe; various objects hanging on the wall. Wash drawing, ca. 1830.

Specification of Arthur Woolf : steam and other boilers.

Specification of James Rumsey : boilers for steam engines, for distillation, &c.

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The interior of a distillery, with a man seated on a chair smoking a pipe; various objects hanging on the wall. Wash drawing, ca. 1830.

Specification of Arthur Woolf : steam and other boilers.

A still house in a whiskey distillery. Wood engraving, late 19th century.

Specification of James Rumsey : boilers for steam engines, for distillation, &c.

Three distillers with streams running from their noses and mouths into a tub of "double rectified spirits". Coloured etching, 1811, after T. Rowlandson.