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  • Chinese Materia Dietetica, Ming: Alcoholic beverages
  • Chinese Materia Dietetica, Ming: Alcoholic beverages
  • Chinese Materia Dietetica, Ming: Alcoholic beverages
  • Chinese Materia Dietetica, Ming: Alcoholic beverages
  • Chinese Materia Dietetica, Ming: Alcoholic beverages
  • Chinese Materia Dietetica, Ming: Alcoholic beverages
  • Contrasts in drinking of alcoholic beverages: a tavern from 1553 is contrasted with a gin-palace of 1847, temperance with drunkenness, and luxury with poverty. Lithograph by Luke Limner (John Leighton).
  • One ornamental and one plain label for the French distiller, Lemoine. Etching with engraving, 19th century.
  • Men with hangovers after a night's heavy drinking; advertising Eno's Fruit Salt. Wood-engraving, 18--, by Dalziel after A. Claxton.
  • A liqueur label illustrated with a French liquor shop interior. Coloured engraving, 19th century.
  • A man pouring the last drop from his wine glass. Mezzotint, c. 1786.
  • A drunkard sits on a barrel spilling drink from a jug and glass. Etching by R. Blyth after P. J. de Loutherbourg.
  • A drunkard sits on a barrel spilling drink from a jug and glass. Etching by R. Blyth after P. J. de Loutherbourg.
  • Three distillers with streams running from their noses and mouths into a tub of "double rectified spirits". Coloured etching, 1811, after T. Rowlandson.
  • A young employee is tempted by a drink offered by his fellow workers. Lithograph, c. 1840, after T. Wilson.
  • Three distillers with streams running from their noses and mouths into a tub of "double rectified spirits". Coloured etching, 1811, after T. Rowlandson.
  • A French liqueur label illustrated with a beautiful maiden seated on an eagle's wing. Engraving by Portier, 19th century.
  • A man drinking himself to death; represented by a skeletal death figure above him and bottles scattered all around. Coloured etching by T. Rowlandson, 1811.
  • An intoxicated man drinking beer; advertising Blauwe Week against alcohol. Lithograph (?), 1936, after A. van Dobbenburgh, 1935.
  • A man drinking himself to death; represented by a skeletal death figure above him and bottles scattered all around. Coloured etching by T. Rowlandson, 1811.
  • An ornamental Italian label for "San Bernardo". Lithograph, 19th century.
  • An ornamental Dutch curaçao label. Engraving, 18--.
  • An ornamental Italian label for "Cerro Negro". Lithograph, 19th century.
  • An ornamental liqueur label for "ratafia de cassis". Engraving, 19th century.
  • Christmas celebrated by people playing instruments, eating and drinking: a man with white hair and a long white beard sitting watching a small man stirring punch in a bowl. Engraving by T. Hollis, 1851, after R.W. Buss.
  • A drunken young man raises a glass in one hand and spills wine from a flask in the other. Coloured etching by R.F. Brichet, 1784, after J. F. de Göz.
  • A woman and man sit at a table drinking as the man raises the bottle in his right hand. Lithograph, 19th century.
  • An employee is caught neglecting his work as he drinks and plays skittles. Lithograph, c. 1840, after T. Wilson.
  • A man seated at a bar table, drinking excessively and smoking a cigarette while complaining about expenditure. Colour lithograph, 196-, by J. Wiktorowski.
  • Two pictures: two women pounding grain and African people brewing pombe. Lithograph with tint plate.